{"id":1723,"date":"2016-06-11T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2016-06-11T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T10:02:30","slug":"dispelling-the-myths-about-cage-free-organic-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/dispelling-the-myths-about-cage-free-organic-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispelling the myths about cage free organic eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"

We know the benefits of eating eggs; but what not many recognize is how the source of the eggs also affect the kind of eggs that we get. And this is why there’s a need to know about (among others) the “healthier” alternatives, i.e. cage free, free range and pasture raised hens that produce the eggs we consume.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Egg Innovations<\/a>, a provider of free range and pasture raised eggs, wants consumers to know the truth behind cage free organic egg production. Contrary to what many believe, cage free organic hens are inside barns for life and never go outside. In the US, proposed revisions to USDA organic rules would in part require hens to be outdoors.<\/p>\n

“Our goal is to ensure that… consumers expect and support improved animal welfare in organic production,” said John Brunnquell<\/span>, founder and president of Egg Innovations and the Blue Sky Family Farms<\/a> brand. “These important decisions should not be left to the deep pockets of factory farming to influence. Their misleading cries of increased mortality, spreading disease, compromised food safety, and sky rocketing prices are unfounded.”<\/p>\n

In practice, the cage free egg production reality does not match consumer perceptions. It’s true that\u00a0cage free chickens are not in cages, but they are confined for life to aviaries (barns) with one square foot of space per hen and never get outside under open skies. By contrast, certified humane free range and pasture raised hens are free to roam inside and out with plenty of space and time on pasture to express their natural behaviors.<\/p>\n

And so for those who (still want to) consume eggs and want to protect the welfare of animals, too, re-considering sources may be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We know the benefits of eating eggs; but what not many recognize is how the source of the eggs also affect the kind of eggs that we get. And this is why there’s a need to know about (among others) the “healthier” alternatives, i.e. cage free, free range and pasture raised hens that produce the eggs we consume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[961,964,962,19,650,963,20],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition","category-spotlight","tag-cage-free","tag-eggs","tag-free-range","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-pasture","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}