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Originally Posted by Peaches
In my grocery store the "cage free" happy chicken eggs are $5 for a dozen and the regular unhappy chicken eggs are $2.50. For shits and grins I went crazy and spent the extra on the happy eggs a few weeks ago. They tasted exactly the same as the unhappy eggs.
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Biggest difference between the farmed locally eggs and the commercial ones are this.
1. Color - Not only do you get shell variation (whooptie) you also get more yellow yolks.
2. Freshness - the farm eggs are much fresher. You can see this more when and if you separate the yolk from the white. You can actually toss the yolk from hand to hand without it breaking. This also leads to eggs that do not run as much, have a higher yolk when done sunny side up etc.
That is about it. Unless you add in the possibility of hormones, antibiotics, etc. that could be carried in the egg. I personally do go with the farmed locally ones, primary cause I get them down the street and they are 4 for a dollar, 5 if I bring my own container.
Yes animals raised for food are food. Still do not buy the argument about raising them in fucked up ways. This just works for all sorts of products we consume even beyond feed animals. Example's are that commercial turkeys have more breast meat but now taste like nothing and can not even breed themselves anymore. Some caged animals are also more prone to sickness that requires treatment using antibiotics and shit that can end up making certain viruses even stronger and more resistant, not to mention when assorted flu's have jumped from avian to human.
There are also plenty of commercial farms that have always done stuff the proper way, while keeping production up, sickness down without wide use of antibiotics, and not having to stuff as many animals into a space as possible. Meanwhile they also are price competitive.