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- nobeastsofierce, on 10/27/2007, -3/+25This woulda got WAY more diggs if you'd called them Open Source Eggs
- Riatsala, on 10/20/2007, -4/+24The golden rule of food: Keep it natural.
- tastypickles, on 10/20/2007, -3/+22Non-scientific at home test: take 1 factory egg and 1 free-range egg, crack both and just LOOK at them. The yolks are totally different colors.
- zengonzo, on 10/27/2007, -2/+20How long did it take you to hatch that one?
- inactive, on 10/25/2007, -2/+19Caged chicken eggs aren't all their cracked up to be.
- djgreedo, on 10/25/2007, -1/+13Please stop the bad yolks.
- KMartSheriff, on 10/19/2007, -2/+11I used to work at a coffee shop and one day a lady came in and asked me if we had organic coffee beans. Confused, I asked her, "what, like free range?".
She complained to my manager. He thought it was funny. - mushoo, on 10/22/2007, -1/+9Sorry to burst some bubbles, but just because the color of the egg, yolk, etc is different than what you're used to doesn't mean it's from a free range chicken.The factory could just have put additives in the feed of the chickens. Furthermore there is no guarantee that just because the egg is labeled as free range it is so. Specially in the U.S. since there are no standards to determine this status. The U.S. Department of Agriculture allows any egg to be labeled as free range. This is a similar situation as that of organic stuff.
So unless you know the farm or shop from a local source you can't be sure the egg is free range.
If you really care about this stuff you need to bitch to the government so they start to monitor and regulate the ***** food supply more thoroughly. You shouldn't have to go through hoops and loops to find out all the relevant information about the crap you're about to put inside your body. - turbopro, on 10/19/2007, -1/+8I always buy cage free or free range eggs, I mean it may seem silly but I can taste a difference. And for the people who say that it's to expensive, it's only about a dollar more. Definitly worth it to support the cage free life that chickens should have. I dont mean to sound like a PETA person here at all, but the chicken is one of the most tortured creatures on the planet.
- ucg1, on 10/19/2007, -1/+7They are more like chicken menstruation. Not that that's supposed to make you want to eat them.
- div2n, on 10/19/2007, -1/+5Beware of the word "natural" on food labels though. It is not a very well defined or regulated part of the food industry. For example, 7-up tries to claim their soft drink is all natural. Yet they use HFCS as a sweetener. HFCS is nowhere near natural.
Also be on the lookout for "natural flavors" or other generic terms on ingredient lists where they don't explicitly tell you what is in it. If food companies see fit to call HFCS "natural", you have to wonder what things they believe fall into the even more vague "natural flavors" group. Kind of makes you wonder what they include in the "artificial flavors" group too.
People are being slowly poisoned over their lifetime by companies looking to, at best, save a penny here and there. - wolfkeeper, on 10/19/2007, -0/+4The color is just due to the amount of a form of vitamin-A in the egg- xeathinine it's not really very indicative of overall quality, it's easy to manipulate, and the wild form may have lower levels if anything. The chemical that is used in battery eggs is actually good for your retina it's thought to protect against a form of blindness common in older people.
- nesibus, on 10/22/2007, -2/+6Have you ever noticed all the guys with man-boobs (moobs) now? What the hell are they putting into food causing this? Back in the day, if you were fat, you were fat, now somewhat fat people or even thin people are growing moobs everywhere I look.
I believe its something to do with whats being put into processed foods and not some gland thing, if it is its cause of the food. - allaboutdatiki, on 10/19/2007, -4/+8I stopped eating eggs entirely, among other things. I do miss 'em. But I still eat plenty of pickles!
- cassholio, on 10/19/2007, -1/+4Might as well just get Egg Beaters then, right?
- meuserj, on 10/19/2007, -0/+3Article seems incomplete.. No link to the scientific journal that their findings were published in. No detailed description of the process they went through to test their hypothesis. No mention of where they got the different eggs, what brand they were, or how large their test data was. No mention if the eggs were picked at random, or if it was double-blinded. They give no information of how to duplicate their study in order to validate or invalidate it.
This doesn't really sound like a scientific study at all. I'd hate to insinuate that a website called "Mother Earth News" just MIGHT be biased toward free-range eggs, and just MIGHT have not conducted the study in an unbiased, scientific manner. But without any information about how the study was performed, we'll just have to trust them.. or not. - Refrag, on 10/19/2007, -0/+3I don't believe any egg can be labeled free range. It's just that the requirements to be able to use that label are very lax.
- shark615, on 10/19/2007, -0/+3You have a small green penis with warts on it that is pickled in brine?
*****, dood you need a doctor like yesterday. - scorchedearth, on 10/19/2007, -1/+4There is one problem with the 'free range' moniker. So called free range eggs aren't necessarily from chickens that are allowed to run wild and free. There are no regulations governing the use of that marketing phrase so you can never be sure if the chicken spent its entire life outside of a cage or whether it was allowed outside the cage for 1 hour out of every 24 per day. As a result, one can never be sure if it is a good, conscientious choice to buy the eggs with that name applied to them.
- inactive, on 10/20/2007, -1/+3I forget the list of chemicals that act like estrogens in the body but the list is long and you can be sure you're exposed to at least one and probably lots of them on a daily basis.
This is also part of the reason girls are hitting puberty at younger and younger ages. - inactive, on 10/19/2007, -3/+5Go ask a biologist if chickens have the complex areas of the brain that require thought and the ability to comprehend that they're in a small cage. What's that? Oh yeah, they don't. STFU already.
- rob66b, on 10/19/2007, -2/+4I started buying cage free eggs 2 years ago . The first thing I noticed is the taste is so much better. The color and size of egg are different. I feel better knowing the chickens aren't trapped in a tiny cage
- Evildudetx, on 10/19/2007, -7/+9Another ***** article not backed up by any real science.
- KillerJ59J, on 10/19/2007, -1/+3That's what she said.
- fredhag, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2In addition to thisisnotpeter's comment, the digg line reads 1/4 the saturated fat not 1/4 less saturated fat. I would have been amazed if it was a 75% reduction in saturated fat.
- r3adah3ad, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2My wife first got me started on the "free range" eggs a couple of years ago. I thought, meh, egg's an egg. A little more expensive in stores, yes, but we started getting them from locals for about a dollar a dozen. I didn't think much of it until we went back to store-bought for a while. It's hard to describe, but the difference is obvious. The store-bought eggs were smaller, lighter, blander, thinner (almost watery). Yeah, I like twinkies as much as the next guy, but store-bought eggs in general suck. The "free range" ones are better, yes, but still not as good as home grown.
- xJudahx, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2How did logic get in here? Are you lost?
- slantyeyed, on 10/19/2007, -1/+3it takes money and man power to monitor and regulate. that means taxes. nobody wants to pay more taxes OR have budgets cut from other programs to pay for new programs. if you wait for your government to inform you, you'll be waiting a long time. people should start informing themselves: read books, visit places, ask questions.
- thisisnotpeter, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2A retarded article. 1/4 less saturated fat of the amount found in eggs amounts to a difference in absolutely nothing, and there has never been an actual link demonstrated between dietary cholesterol and cholesterol levels in the body. They taste better, though, yes, but let's leave it at the benefit being something that's actually true.
- graemee, on 10/19/2007, -0/+2IIRC They use an extract from the Marigold flower in the feed makes the color deeper.
- aaronm67, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1EDIT:
and about those peanut butter links, here's a fun fact: all peanut butter has niacin, riboflavin, and vitamin e, they just don't put the specific values on the jar. You can buy Organic peanut butter with salt added, and you can buy non organic peanut butter without salt added.
For example, a non-organic low sodium peanut butter:
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item.php?ite ...
organic high sodium peanut butter:
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/101528. ...
Like I said before, you can buy healthy non-organic food and you can buy healthy organic food. The only difference is non-organic will be about half the price. - tastypickles, on 10/19/2007, -4/+5Mmmm.... pickles...
- yarsrevenge, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1The results in this article prove nothing. Unfortunately, this is advocacy masquerading as science.
- aaronm67, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1The organic sauce isn't more nutritious, it has:
80mg more sodium
1g more fiber
6% more vitamin C
2% less iron
Vitamin C is in everything, 1g of fiber isn't too hard to get somewhere else. Certainly not worth it for 80mg sodium. - inactive, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1The differences between USDA Organic and non-organic are not trivial. This is especially true for items like milk and certain kinds of produce.
- wing05, on 10/20/2007, -1/+2Actually, you'll find that the meat and milk from cows that are allowed to graze on grass has a distinctly grassy taste. Or as one organic farmer's literature puts it "older people say this is the way it used to taste".
Beef and milk cows for mass consumption are corn fed or were/are (gasp) reprocessed dead animal pellet fed. - dentt, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1scorchedearth, your comment is true; headliners automatically create trust somehow between the consumer and the seller. The Amish provide an excellent source of “free range hens”.eggs. But what about organic farming pride? Many organic farmers have to pay more to be organic farmers.
- div2n, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1Peanut butter is actually good for you in moderation. It has a fair amount of the unsaturated fats.
Check out the nutritional differences in the two peanut butters:
Organic
http://www.smuckers.com/fg/pds/default.asp?groupid ...
Non-organic
http://www.smuckers.com/fg/peanutbutter/default2.a ...
The Prego organic sauce is a bit more nutritious and definitely has too much salt. That's been my biggest complaint about it. I think they could back off of that and still have a great flavored sauce. Let people add more sodium if they feel the need. - inactive, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1If the success of the USDA Organic label is any indication of attitudes then people WILL pay more for the perceived instrumentalities of healthier choices.
- meuserj, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1I stand corrected, they do provide some data at the bottom. I got to what looked like the end of the article, and missed the table at the bottom.
Once again, though, they do not provide any information on the testing procedure. They claim to get the numbers for "Eggs from Confined Birds" from the USDA database, but don't provide a link to that data, so they could be pulling numbers from the lowest grade of USDA eggs, or even the minimum requirements which isn't necessarily the average egg you will get. Likewise they could be hand picking the free range egg brands, or leaving out data that could skew the average against them (there are some missing fields for some farms).
Without a more detailed account of their research methods, there can be no certainty about their results. Considering the bias of the source, the study needs to be executed in such a way to protect the results from it. A double blind study of randomly selected eggs of various prices and sources is the only way to be certain. - tehstyles, on 10/22/2007, -0/+1Grass contains omega-3 fatty acids. That's why grass fed meats are higher in Omega-3's.
- Malakin, on 10/19/2007, -1/+2You need to buy "Real Free-Range Eggs" as the article states. Buying eggs marked as free-range from a major grocery store will usually get you a product that is hardly any better than the non-free-range eggs. Local farms may be good if you can see the conditions that the chickens are raised in.
- inactive, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1People are idiots, and marketing gimicks work. None of this is a big shock.
- nullenigma, on 10/19/2007, -1/+2The last carton of eggs I bought were free range, the yolks were runny and broke without provocation, indicating a low grade egg. Also they tasted like crap.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1The color in butter is artificial, it is created by adding annatto.
Whoops. Misplaced. But I'm gonna leave it here anyway. Sorry, this was for drlha. - ubuwalker31, on 10/19/2007, -1/+2The most interesting link on the page, to eatwild.com and localharvest.com will put you in contact with local farms where you can buy local organic/free-range poultry and beef products. I ordered a heritage turkey from a local farm, and I can't wait till thanksgiving to eat it!
- div2n, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1Here are a few exercises for you to compare organic vs non-organic ("all natural" aside as that isn't well defined)
Pick up a jar of non-organic "natural" Smuckers peanut butter and a jar of organic Smuckers peanut butter. Compare the nutritional contents. Pay very close attention to the vitamin contents. Now do the same for Prego spaghetti sauce.
In fact, do that for products where there is an exact or near exact organic vs non-organic product. Many of the big names have comparable products that are organic now. Check out nutritional information and check out things such as sodium content as well. You will find that the organic products are almost always more nutritious and have lower sodium content.
Unless you think less nutritious food is equally healthy as more nutritious food, then that is common sense proof for you.
There are other benefits that are indirect and therefore more difficult for the average person to grasp. Fertilizers and pesticides are not very good for the environment in general. If you want to see what happens on a macro scale, visit the dead zone at the Mississippi delta. Read about it here:
http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/deadzo ... - Namakemono, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1As long as the chickens aren't choked...
- aaronm67, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1I'm not about to triple my grocery bill just to buy a bunch of food with "all natural" or "organic" on the label. There isn't any reliable, non biased scientific data with any health benefits to natural food.
- aaronm67, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1If you're wanting to eat healthy, you probably shouldn't be eating peanut butter anyway.
And, I just happened to have a jar of "Prego Tomato and Basil Salsa", and I compared with this site
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/96806.h ...
Sodium : Organic : 540mg, Non Organic : 420mg
Total Fat: Organic 2.5g, Non Organic : 2g
Saturated Fat : the website doesn't say sat fat, so I'm not sure about this one
Carbs/Fiber : Organic : 15g/4g Non Organic : 17g/3g
Vitamins : A : 15% on both
C: 10% Organic, 4% Non Organic
Calcium : 4% each
Iron : 4% Organic, 6% Non Organic
...wait...which one is more healthy there? They can't use artificial preservatives in the Organic one, so they load it up with salt. Other then that, the nutritional values are pretty similar, neither really significantly better then the other.
You can eat healthy non-organic, and you can eat unhealthy organic. You have to use some common sense about what you eat (i.e. not eat peanut butter, which is loaded with fat with not many other benefits) -
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