Are Organic Free-Range Eggs Really Healthier For You?

What’s the big deal about organic, free-range eggs? Do they taste better? Are they better for you? They certainly cost a heck of a lot more. Is it worth it to pay twice as much just so chickens have more satisfactory lives?

There are several qualifiers you'll see on the packages of these eggs: organic, hormone-free, and free-range are three common phrases you'll encounter. What do these terms mean?

The term "organic" means the chickens were fed organic feed, or feed produced without pesticides, which means you won't get undesirable chemicals in the eggs you eat. This is what you're paying for when you buy organic eggs: you're paying for freedom from worry of the impact of pesticides and other chemicals on the eggs you're ingesting.

If they are hormone-free, the chickens were not given hormones that cause them to become super fat or super-egg producers, but rather, they are allowed to be natural chickens. There is growing concern about the impact of these hormones on people, so you are paying more so you don't have to worry about the possible impact of those hormones on your body.

If the chickens are raised free-range, this means they are not kept in one of those mega chicken houses where the chickens are kept in cages the size of a large toaster and never move, only just eat and crap and lay eggs in uncomfortable, unsanitary conditions. Chickens who live in these mega-henhouses are often unhealthy, since they are stacked one on top of another, unable to move even to eat, drink, or defecate. This means you are indeed paying the extra money required for chickens to live nice chicken lives, but you're also getting eggs that came from healthier chickens.

But down to the question we all want the answer to: Do these healthier eggs taste better? The average person doesn't think they taste different. The determining factors are this: you'll want to by the more expensive eggs if you are concerned about pesticides, hormones, and the health of chickens.

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