Post by applecrisp1 on Sept 23, 2019 14:18:26 GMT -5
The egg aisle is starting to look like the yogurt aisle --- soooo many types of eggs.
So if you eat eggs, what do you typically buy?
Could be, any kind as long as not cracked and don't really have preference.
Or free range, cage free, organic, omega 3, pasture raised or .....
No surprise the labeling often confusing and getting unbiased info is not that easy. How much space do the chickens get (from what I've read, seems cage free could be misleading, doesn't really mean much in terms of space and what one might think as proper surroundings), do they really go outside, what are they fed, do they have chai tea. So confusing. Looks like pasture raised is getting lots of attention for eggs, meat and dairy recently.
Here's a blurb from Nellie's free range eggs (and they sell free range so no surprise they take this view, not saying wrong or right, who knows ...) Pasture Raised brands are advertising that they offer from 35 sq. ft. to 108 sq. ft. per hen and suggesting that 2 sq. ft. is insufficient. More is not better in this case. More is just more. And it costs the farmers more to own and maintain that extra space for no discernible purpose that we can see. Agriculture land is scarce and expensive, so forcing small farm families to operate and maintain an excess of it just to brag about how much square footage each hen gets seems insincere and gratuitous to us.
Year ago it was basically brown or white eggs. Large, medium or .....
So if you eat eggs, what do you typically buy?
Could be, any kind as long as not cracked and don't really have preference.
Or free range, cage free, organic, omega 3, pasture raised or .....
No surprise the labeling often confusing and getting unbiased info is not that easy. How much space do the chickens get (from what I've read, seems cage free could be misleading, doesn't really mean much in terms of space and what one might think as proper surroundings), do they really go outside, what are they fed, do they have chai tea. So confusing. Looks like pasture raised is getting lots of attention for eggs, meat and dairy recently.
Here's a blurb from Nellie's free range eggs (and they sell free range so no surprise they take this view, not saying wrong or right, who knows ...) Pasture Raised brands are advertising that they offer from 35 sq. ft. to 108 sq. ft. per hen and suggesting that 2 sq. ft. is insufficient. More is not better in this case. More is just more. And it costs the farmers more to own and maintain that extra space for no discernible purpose that we can see. Agriculture land is scarce and expensive, so forcing small farm families to operate and maintain an excess of it just to brag about how much square footage each hen gets seems insincere and gratuitous to us.
Year ago it was basically brown or white eggs. Large, medium or .....
