Continuing the discussion about free range an cage free chicken. Thank you, Anna, for researching and sharing this valuable information.
In the Part 1 of Understanding food labels I have discussed a brief history of the free-range and cage-free chicken and the beginning of the transition to the cage-free chicken. I continue, as the pressure of having the cage-free chicken began building, the egg suppliers ended up having to give in.
They didn’t like it but the law of supply and demand prevailed. If this is what their customers wanted, they’d do it. Rose Acre Farms, one of the biggest egg producers, is converting its operations to cage-free, and likely all the major suppliers will follow the suit. The fast food industry has given its vendors until 2025 to produce range-free eggs. This seems like an awfully long time but the problem is, this can be done only with a new generation of chickens and will take time. Birds that live in cages can’t be converted into the range-free kind…
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I called them Eggs from Happy Chicken, it is amazing how people are not aware of how to really find out how the chickens are raised.
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Unfortunately, so many people are susceptible to propaganda without really looking into things!
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If the shells are thick and firm, if the yolk is yellow and doesn’t break in the frypan, if it tastes good, then it’s free range.
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Very true, but to know all this, you have to buy them first.
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