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      I have never seen anything other than carton boxes for eggs here in Norway. This comment actually baffled me that they came in anything other somewhere.

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        Ours come in a clear plastic vacuum formed container, compressed paper carton, or Styrofoam, depending on the brand.

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          That’s just fucked up. Clear plastic seems like the worst possible container as it gives little or no protection, and is obviously plastic which the world only needs less of.

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            It’s usually multiple foldovers of semi rigid plastic similar to most water bottles around here. They seem to function well. It’s probably six or more 1 litre bottles worth of plastic though.

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            It is the worst. The only pro is you can visible see if they are broken without opening anything.

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        Same here in Sweden, there are som variations on what kind of carton boxes but never seen any plastic or styrofoam.

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        There’s like six different egg providers at most grocery stores around me. I have choices.

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          Only one of them is the cheap regular eggs, though. The others are organic or free range or otherwise differentiated in some way other than just the foam vs paper packaging.

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            You should always buy the organic ones, even if they are so much more expensive. The conditions in which the chickens are kept, to produce the cheap eggs, is absolutely, inhumanely fucked up. You can see the difference in the yolk as well: the ones produced by chickens, that are fed better, and not kept in a way they cannot even move, are orange, while the ones by chickens kept and fed horribly, are yellow.