There is so much confusion in the "Healthy Egg Market" let me explain the differences of certain sale points the big corporations don't expect you to investigate!!!
Cage free.... it in itself is a false statement!! Have you ever seen those long chicken houses that look like airplane hangars? Well you can rest assured that if that's where your eggs come from that the chickens that laid that egg lives in that building but isn't In a cage! It's still not outside!!
Free range- OK the wording of "free range" makes you feel as though the chickens can roam anywhere, right? Well again that is another technical term that honestly means, the chickens live in a house and have free range in a limited amount of land that doesn't get time to recover so the chickens only get an area that they beat it up so it never recovers the whole time the chickens live there!! 'Meaning less nutrition but limited grazing'
PASTURED.... and listen real carefully to this... "PASTURED EGGS" are the highest quality eggs you can get because, although chickens live in a house only while sleeping they also get moved to new grass because their house is mobile!! Which means they never beat the land up so much that they can't find bugs, grass or worms!! So basically they live like most people expect an animal to live which makes the eggs a product of its environment which is the healthiest thing for animal that produces food for us!! HAPPY CHICKEN HEALTHY EGGS!!
I hope I cleared up any misconceptions... I'm a pastured chicken farmer and local pastured is the healthiest so start looking for the good eggs and you can honestly taste the difference... thanks for reading!!