01-20-2018, 09:41 AM
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Originally posted by MarkD
Careful you're going to upset the folks who say there is absolutely no difference between organic eggs and/or farm fresh eggs (as you raised them) and commercial eggs.
Hi! Maybe not upset, but curious.
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Originally posted by Mimosa
...The hens give us large brown eggs with deep orange yolks with way less cholesterol. Much healthier than the month old irradiated chemical fed caged eggs from America shipped in in refrigerated containers...
Just a couple things:
(1) Brown eggs and white eggs have the same nutritional quality, one is not healthier than the other. Typically brown eggs are layed by hens with brown feathers and reddish ear lobes while white eggs are layed by hens with white feathers and whitish ear lobes.
(2) I wonder why this poster thinks their eggs have "way less cholesterol". Is there some testing they have done to determine this - how did they reach this conclusion?
(3) I also wonder how they concluded they are "...healthier than...eggs from America...".
(4) Irradiation does not make foods radioactive, compromise nutritional quality, or noticeably change the taste, texture, or appearance of food. In fact, any changes made by irradiation are so minimal that it is not easy to tell if a food has been irradiated. Food irradiation (the application of ionizing radiation to food) is a technology that improves the safety and extends the shelf life of foods by reducing or eliminating microorganisms and insects. <https://www.fda.gov/food/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm261680.htm>
(5) All chickens eat chemicals, chemicals are in grain fed to chickens as well as in insects they may eat in the wild. Chemicals aren't scary - we are all made up of chemicals and eat/drink them everyday. Some chemicals can be toxic - toxicity is scary. Chickens aren't fed toxic chemicals, unless you consider antibiotics toxic (which they are, but only to the bacteria - not chickens or humans).
(6) Refrigeration does not reduce the nutritional quality of eggs.