Do you ever wonder why when you go to grocery store there are so many different types of eggs to choose from and so many different prices too? I will give you the quick run down on all four options.
1. The run of the mill general eggs that you buy at the grocery store are probably come from caged chickens. The live in horrible environments. Here is a photo from the website:
http://ohsnapletseat.com/2013/04/01/different-types-of-eggs/ that shows the general idea of caged chickens.
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| Caged Chickens |
2. After hearing about the living conditions that cage chickens live in, I decided to start buying cage free eggs. Then, I watched the video "Food.Inc" and I saw that cage free chickens are not much better. They do not live in cages but instead they still live in horrible conditions that do not allow them the opportunity to roam freely and they don't see daylight. They also get pumped with antibiotics...Hmmm I wonder why?! Here is a photo of "caged free" chickens from the same website as the previous photo.
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| Cage-Free Chickens |
3. Now, what do I buy? I don't want to buy "regular" caged-chicken eggs. I don't want to buy cage-free eggs? Now what? Well, there are two more types to choose from. Free-Range and Organic. According to
http://ohsnapletseat.com/2013/04/01/different-types-of-eggs/ Free-Range chickens are supposed to be able to roam freely for a portion of their time but it does not mean that they don't live in cramped quarters part of the time. Now how much time do they get outside? Who knows but those are still better options than the previous two.
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Free-Range Chickens http://ohsnapletseat.com/2013/04/01/different-types-of-eggs/
4. The final type of egg choice is organic. Organic basically means that the chickens cannot be pumped with antibiotics (unless they were sick), they must live in cage-free and free-range environments. They also probably don't need as many antibiotics because the are able to move around and are not standing in feces etc...These are going to be the most expensive eggs to buy. However, if you think about how many toxins we already have in our environment, and consider how often eggs are required in recipes, for your sake and the chickens' sake isn't it worth the extra dollar or two to know that you are not putting more hormones or antibiotics into your body?
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