Are Cage Free Eggs Healthier Than Battery Farmed Eggs?

Eggs are an important food, all around the world.  They are used as meals, used as ingredients in almost all forms of baking, and play an essential role in good health.  However, if you are eating regular eggs, then you should certainly consider eating free range eggs instead, for a variety of good reasons.  

 

First, cage free eggs are a humane food.  In a traditional chicken house, hens are kept in tiny wire cages, packed so tightly that they cannot even flap their wings.  They stand on a bare wire floor for their entire lives, with no freedom or bedding and no ability to express their natural instinct to make nests, clean themselves or to forage for food.  Many die as a result of these practices, and most often the dead birds are only removed once weekly, letting disease spread quickly among their cage-mates.  Not only is this cruel, but it results in stressed, sick chickens and tasteless eggs. 

 

Chickens have a surprisingly high level of intelligence despite their traditional ‘dumb chicken’ reputation, and being kept in battery conditions makes for a short, miserable life for the millions of hens kept daily in such conditions. 

 

Another reason that you should consider this form of food is that the eggs actually do taste better.  If you’ve ever eaten fruit or vegetables you’ve grown yourself, you’ll know the taste is a hundred percent better and more naturally flavorful than the bland taste of store bought produce, which is usually grown with the whole spectrum of pesticides, insecticides and other growth-enhancing chemicals.  The same applies to eggs.  When the hen is able to walk around, forage for food and exercise to stay healthy, instead of being pumped full of chemicals to keep them from getting sick, this leads to better overall health for the bird. 

 

That health translates into taste benefits within the egg itself, with more natural food such as grass and grain flavors going into the egg yolk rather than the unnatural food fed to battery hens.  You will find that cage free eggs actually taste better, and have lower levels of chemicals than their caged brethren do.

 

You will also find that this food contains lower instances of diseases.  The caged conditions in which most chickens live make things like salmonella very common, to a point where most birds carry at least a trace of the disease.  Salmonella can be present inside the egg, or it can be transferred to the shells by unhygienic farming conditions.  In a cage free environment, this threat is reduced. 

 

You can enjoy better food and better health, while ensuring that the chickens, themselves, are healthier, as well.  Cage free eggs should be your first option at the store.

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