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LillyBoPeep -> RE: What's Your Breakfast of Champions? (5/24/2011 11:42:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: rulemylife
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ORIGINAL: WantsOfTheFlesh
Two high quality organic fried eggs....
What is an organic egg?
Aren't all eggs organic?
actually no -- a lot of chickens are raised in battery cages, and fed a diet they would not eat naturally. lots of hormones and antibiotics given to promote growth in a distressing, unnatural environment and control disease outbreak; disease spreads fast when you have chickens living in cages the size of shoeboxes stacked on top of each other.
organic eggs come from chickens raised to particular standards -- it depends, but one of the basic requirements is that they have access to outside, instead of being stuck in cages or warehouses, and they eat a food (generally vegetarian, unlike standard chicken food) that adheres to organic guidelines by being free of animal byproducts, hormones, GMOs, antibiotics, etc. they have a more natural, healthy existence, which makes for healthier eggs.
the eggs i ate in England, for instance, tasted a bajillion times better than standard eggs i ate here in the US. now, if i can afford them, i prefer organic or free-range eggs because they are similar to the ones i had in England (they have much more advanced animal welfare standards there).
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