People salute a lot of nonsense about eggs.
Let's start with the obvious and provable: all chicken eggs are the same, and NO you probably cannot taste the difference, a fact that has been shown in numerous blind taste tests, and which is especially true when that egg is served up in an omelet with onions, bacon, and parmesan cheese.
In fact, I will go one step further: I very much doubt you can tell the difference between a chicken egg and an ostrich egg, once they are served scrambled. I know I can't, and for the record, one ostrich egg is equal to 2 dozen chicken eggs in the scrambled egg pan.
As I note in a post linked below, folks are mostly buying prejudice and story -- a fine thing if you are in the business of fraud. When "regular" eggs are $1.87 a dozen and "girls on grass" eggs are sold as "free range, local, organic" for $7 a dozen, guess what happens?
And what's the difference in egg shell color about? Not a thing other than ear color. Chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs exclusively, while birds with dark lobes lay brown eggs, and the Araucana breed and their crosses (aka "Easter-eggers") have earlobes that are a pale green or blue color.
Egg production and productivity has soared in the US during my lifetime. Today we produce about 50 billion eggs in the U.S. each year. In 1960, the average hen produced 160 eggs a year, but today the number is over 325 eggs a year.
- Selling Woo and Provenance At Whole Foods
- The Bold Lies Made About "Local" Foods
- Chicken Ethics Vs Chicken Aesthetics
- Covid Chickens
- Marvelous Chicken Productivity
- Eggs Past and Eggs Future
- Temple Grandin On What Concerns a Chicken
- Will Passive Poultry Mean More Expensive Eggs?
- Eating the Chicken of Tomorrow Today
- An Illustrated Anatomy of Unnatural Selection
- Chickens and Unintentional Consequences
- Clucking, Cockfighting and Colonel Sanders
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