Re: free range eggs - more nutritious

I am just curious as you say "we" - are you associated with a chicken
farm ?

Nowhere did I state that free range eggs were more affordable nor that
it was feasible to feed our every growing populace with totally free
range eggs. But, for those that are able to, free range eggs , in my
opinion, are a better alternative.
You state how the industry does alot of research in what brings us a
better egg - I would have to take exception to that. Just like the beef
industry - they do alot of research into what brings the meat and eggs
to market FASTER.
"More immediately, this abuse of pharmaceuticals has spurred the
evolution of new strains of antibiotic-resistant super-bacteria.
Studies have found that most of the meat on grocery store shelves today
is contaminated with these bacteria, which cannot be killed with
conventional antibiotics. For example, scientists at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health recently reported that 96 percent of
Tyson chicken flesh in one sample was contaminated with dangerous
antibiotic-resistant campylobacter bacteria"

Dennis O'Brien, "Arsenic Used in Chicken Feed May Pose Threat,"
The Baltimore Sun 4 May 2004.

At the Tyson feed mill in aptly named Buzzard Bluff, AK over ten
million pounds of dead chickens are also recycled into ?fresh?
chicken food each year. Such induced livestock cannibalism, though, is
well known to spread disease between animals and even on to humans - as
witnessed by the "Mad Cow" epidemic in Europe that has now also
appeared in Canada.

American agribusiness is producing more food than ever before, but the
evidence is building that the vitamins and minerals in that food are
declining. For example, take the two eggs shown at right. The one with
the bright orange yolk is from a free-range chicken raised by Mother
Earth News managing editor Nancy Smith, while the pale one is a
supermarket egg from a hen raised indoors on a "factory farm." Eggs
from free-range hens contain up to 30 percent more vitamin E, 50
percent more folic acid and 30 percent more vitamin B-12 than factory
eggs. And the bright orange color of the yolk shows higher levels of
antioxidant carotenes. (Many factory-farm eggs are so pale that
producers feed the hens expensive marigold flowers to make the yolks
brighter in color.)

I could list tons of articles such as this. Our food supply is nothing
more then corporate interests. All that counts is the bottom line.
Reading this stuff is exactly why I started raising my own chickens in
the first place.
just like everything else in America, it has nothing to do with what is
right, it has nothing to do with what is better, it has everything to
do with what makes the most money the fastest.

One of the most telling statements above is that Tyson feeds 10 million
pounds of chickens BACK to the chickens. Exactly my point....chickens
were not made to eat chickens....but it sure makes money.

Soon as I save some money and get a fence up.....a cow is next because
what we buy at Kroger's is not the same beef i ate as a child.

.

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