Cage Free Eggs…Duhhhh.

Chickens packed in wire cages usually have less than half a square foot of floor space per bird. 6 hens in one cage can become immobilized and die of asphyxiation or dehydration. Decomposing corpses are found in cages with live birds. Tens of millions (approximately 14%) of egg-laying hens die during production each year.

While AAA or AA or A regular eggs (I haven’t bought them in so long I don’t even know what they are called) might be the cheapest deal at the grocery store, I encourage you to buy cage free, organic eggs. You’re saving chickens as well as yourself.

I’ll tell you the abbreviated version about where the regular eggs come from. And, yes, they come from chickens. But they don’t just come from the type of chicken you’d imagine. Eggs that are NOT cage free or organic come from chickens that are plump, forcefully fed, and loaded with drugs and antibiotics. They don’t have free space to roam, and sometimes they are actually fed with carcasses of other chickens! Just think about all the antibiotics that you are ingesting by eating the eggs or meat of chickens that are not cage free and organic.

On the other hand, cage free eggs come from chickens that are free to roam and not cooped up in over-capacity cages as well as fed vegetarian diets, rather than turning to cannibalism or being force-fed chicken carcasses.

Just do a little research on cage versus cage free eggs on the internet. I assure you next time you go to the grocery store you will be begging for the cage free eggs after just a little online research. Or you can just take my word for it…