Friday, November 4, 2011

Store-Bought Organic Free-Range Eggs versus Backyard Organic Free-Range Eggs

All it took was one free-range egg and I swore I would never go back to the tasteless white eggs that are mass produced in battery operations being fed a whole cocktail of steroids, antibiotics, and God knows what else.  So you pay a little extra but the taste, the peace of mind, and knowing you are not supporting a miserable practice make it worthwhile.  I did not expect our eggs to be much different than the organic free-range eggs that are bought in the stores.  I was pleasantly mistaken.  Maybe because our eggs are fresher (sometimes they are laid the day we cook them) or maybe the hens are more “free-ranging” than in larger commercial operations or maybe it is what we feed them.  Regardless, the picture below shows the difference between a high-end store-bought organic free-range egg (left) and one of ours (right).  Look at the color of the yolks…

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