Re: free range eggs - more nutritious

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

do you mean the "we" in
The best we can do ?

I meant as a general population
Yes I am "associated" with a chicken farm - we have 24 acres on the West
Coast of Scotland where we breed pure breed poultry and produce eggs.
All our birds are ranging

>
> 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 said a more efficient egg
I said I agreed with you that I believe that ranging birds probably produce
a better quality of egg

> 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.

Yes -- you would have thought the US might have learnt the lessons by now

> 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....

Ah -- but chickens will very happily eat chickens - quite naturally - they
are VERY cannabilistic even in the most perfect conditions. The slightest
wound on a bird can cause a bloodbath by other birds attacking it and
literally eating it alive
BUT -- I agree with you --IF the US is still being SO stupid - its only
their fault if things come back to haunt them in the future


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Jill Bowis

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