Comments on: How to Buy Organic Eggs: Pastured vs. Free Range Eggs

By: TMI and My Aggressive Mind « Zeroing in on Recovery

TMI and My Aggressive Mind « Zeroing in on Recovery — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:07:11 +0000

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By: Bryan - oz4caster

Bryan - oz4caster — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:09:14 +0000

Eggs from truly pastured chickens are the best by far. A picture is worth a thousand words: tale of two eggs

By: RJ

RJ — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:21:59 +0000

Hmm, I don’t know about layers, but we have a poultry processing plant here in town and the chickens going in don’t look so healthy, at least from the sores I can see on them as I drive past on the interstate. It’s a great reminder not to buy my poultry from the supermarket.

I recently started buying pastured eggs again from a friend. I had forgotten how orange the yolks are and how hard the shells are. Nothing like the store eggs with their pale yellow yolks and their fragile shells.

By: Paige

Paige — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:17:23 +0000

To those concerned that the industry will crumble if “everyone starts sourcing ‘cage free’ eggs”…That industry is rather new, and, like everything, needs a few checks and balances. In fact, industrialized food is new across the board. And it won’t crumble as long as it continues to be bolstered by the government.

It wasn’t long ago that everyone had their own chickens and eggs and didn’t need to buy them from the store at all. It’s not a bad thing that food be brought back home. We don’t NEEEEEEED the chicken houses to have healthy chicken and eggs. We are told by the government and private industry that we need them. More and more regulation like NAIS is imposed not to raise health standards, but to limit the smaller operations so that the large industry can continue to thrive.

There is a mess out there and the source is regularly industry supported by government supported by industry supported by government. When those get decoupled again, we will see the health and safety of the entire population improve. And not just on paper.

People can know what a living wage is again, and better yet, people won’t need so much to live because we will know how to take care of ourselves rather than pay everyone else to do it for us. Hopefully we are soon to learn that paying everyone else to take care of us does NOT necessarily ensure our well-being.

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:46:43 +0000

Believe what you want about how the chickens are being treated and what is ‘clean’ or ’safe’. When you crack open a CAFO egg and compare it to a pastured egg, the difference cannot even be described in words. If these CAFO chickens are so healthy, then why are the eggs from them so awful (taste, texture, color, everything)?

I hate that money even factors into this debate considering how much America spends on health care (a lot of which stems from eating such bad food). I’d rather pay more for eggs and eat less of them if that’s what it takes to change these operations over to more natural farming methods. Would be nice of the government to help small scale farmers too, but that might be asking too much.