pasture raised egg

According to a 2007 Federal law, chickens labeled as Free Range (or Cage Free) can instead be crammed inside a warehouse and fed corn and soybeans as long as a door to a small patch of grass is left open for at least 5 minutes a day. Five minutes a day!?! Of course, crowding alone prevents the chickens from even seeing the day of light.*

Don’t be misled by any labels like “all vegetarian fed”, “all natural”, “all organic”. Often these products are laced with pseudo-grains, GMO grains or soy, and the FDA nor USDA have yet to define or regulate any of it. Think about that?! A food manufacturer can make up their own definition and get away with it. At least in the U.S.

Pasture Raised (and pasture finished) chickens get quite the different treatment. Know your sources, buy local and ask questions.

Proper chicken care is based on a diet that’s natural to these animals – mainly worms, bugs, anything they can peck out of the grass. Not corn. Not soy. And definitely not anything that has a tinge of arsenic or Round Up.

Don’t even get me started on Round Up in the U.S. It’s bad news and we have a lot of work to do in this country to get this off the shelves and out of our bodies! Check out this article for starters: What you Need to Know about a popular weed killer’s alleged link to cancer

Here is an insightful excerpt: “Glyphosate is by far the most widely used herbicide in the United States, and probably worldwide. It is used on nearly every acre of corn, cotton and soybeans grown in the U.S. You may have sprayed it on your lawn or garden. But many jurisdictions, in more than two dozen countries, have banned or restricted its use.” EXCEPT THE U.S.!!! How is this even possible.

And according to an excerpt from Dr. Gundry’s Plant Paradox book (pg 123) – to “make matters worse, our own US Department of Agriculture (USDA) does not currently test food for glyphosate residues citing the high cost as a deterrent.”

You’ve got to be kidding me! But I’ve digressed….

 

WHERE TO FIND

  • You’ll have to do some homework to find proper chickens – whether for meat or eggs – but there are websites and resources out there to help you support a local farmer. Here is one by LocalHarvest.

 

  • Vital Farms Pasture-Raised Eggs are now hitting the shelves of Wegman’s, Whole Foods and some Target stores. These are the best case option for anything store bought. Yes they will cost $7++ to buy. Yes they are more than 2x the cost of regular eggs. But what cost is the right cost to pay for your health.

And please, please stop buying your eggs from the big chain grocery stores and worse yet, the big box stores like  Costco. Please!!!

*Directly Sourced from: The Plant Paradox, by the brilliant Dr. Gundry, page 126

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