Guilt-free 'spacecakes'!

While Amsterdam's officials run around trying to shut down all the goodness of the city's rampant marijuana tourism, other parties are working to ensure that Amsterdam's famed "spacecakes" - powered by hashish! - are animal friendly:

"Coffee shop owners were completely unaware and shocked that their spacecakes are not animal friendly," said a spokeswoman for Dutch animal rights group Wakker Dier, campaigning against the use of eggs from chickens kept caged on battery farms.
Four large shops have switched to free-range eggs and 20 more plan to follow, she said. The shops get through hundreds of eggs a week for their spacecakes, which are baked with marijuana or hashish and can give an intense high.

I just love seeing the term "spacecakes" used in a Reuters article. At any rate, it's nice to know that these enterprising shopkeepers are doing everything they can to keep "spacecakes" a guilt-free pleasure.

» more at: today.reuters.co.uk

Posted By Scotto at 2007-10-04 00:06:33 permalink | comments

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Nowhere Girl : 2007-10-06 02:42:01

Well, I get an allergic response anyway if I eat more than two eggs in a short timespan. Not a dangerous one, but in such a case I just feel worse than normally (and I suffer from allergy all the time, without any remission).

Pomegranate : 2007-10-05 16:57:02

Eggs from caged chickens that are given steroids and fed chemicals have a very high omega6 : omega3 ratio (20:1) which leads to a number of complications. as those essential fatty acids should be at a 1:1 ratio in the body (the ratio found in chickens allowed to feed on grass, insects and natural foods; Cage-free eggs).

This is why you get health problems from eating more than a few eggs a day. It's not the cholesterol which isn't really bad for you. (Google "truth saturated fat cholesterol")

Nowhere Girl : 2007-10-04 02:34:05

Very nice. I try to use only use eggs from non-caged chickens at home at by the way it's not easy, I have to buy them on the market place - in large stores they are unavailable. And spacecakes are a long story... last summer I went with my mum and grandpa to a one-day-trip to Amsterdam (my grandpa lives in Germany, close to the Dutch border) - and I was certainly not allowed to have any other kind of trip. I was 25, I asked!! and wasn't allowed to have a spacecake! I'm still upset.

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