Eggs Not Always What They're Cracked Up to Be
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#2Handy link from the article if you want to be a bit pickier about the eggs you buy: http://www.cornucopia.org/organic-egg-scorecard/
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#3The most informative thing for me was that "organic" actually has a definition by USDA:
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=t...
Up until now the med student in me had the jerk reaction that "organic" meant carbon-based (+ nightmares from ochem), which applies to almost everything we eat.
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#4I get pasture raised eggs from a farm in Petaluma which has a CSA I use. They are very good, come in a wide variety of shell colors and the yolks are a deep yellowish orange, but I'm not necessarily sure they are necessarily worth the $8.50 a carton (technically, they are only grade A because of the variance). On the other hand, a dozen eggs from a decent producer will usually run $4/dozen. I'd recommend them for egg dishes, but maybe not so much for general culinary usage.
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#5I've know these for a while and always look for pastured eggs but never find them outside of a farmer's market.
>No Hormones... It's like putting a label on a cereal box that says, "No toxic waste."
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#6Can pretty much sum up the entire organic/"natural" food craze of the past decade with: advertising as usual.
Good article. Nothing new to see here though. Hopefully this will wake up some people though who exclusively go for the brand name stuff at Whole Foods.
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#8Often you are not getting eggs at all: I was surprised to learn recently that when you order eggs from most breakfast restaurants (IHOP, Denny's) or eat at hotel buffets you are actually getting powdered eggs.
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#9For those that are interested, I've found that Certified Humane eggs are the easiest to find and that label carries weight. It's usually $4-$5 for a dozen, more expensive than factory eggs but still pretty cheap for food in general. AWA is stricter, but I've never seen AWA eggs.
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#10I was shocked to read that eggs generally have pleasing deep-yellow or orange-red yolks because the egg industry spends a lot of money to put special additives into chicken feed just for that purpose. There's no other benefit from those additives.
http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/375927.html
I think about that now every time I see a pleasing, healthy-looking, tasty-looking deeply yellow yolk on my plate.