How to identify legitimate, superior, nutrient-dense, and safe organic eggs
If you prioritize eating fresh, whole, organic food, it isn’t enough to just look for the USDA Organic label. Just like the gumshoes at OrganicEye, you must be a detective!
The Hierarchy of Your Egg Options
This episode of Kastel’s Kitchen helps you get the best value in the egg market by drilling down on the following questions:
- What are the real reasons conventional and organic eggs are so expensive right now?
- Most organic eggs come from giant livestock factories. How do I find authentic organic eggs that are superior in nutrition and come from hens that are treated respectfully?
- What’s the difference between cage-free, free-range, and pasture-raised poultry? What are floor birds? And which brands are the charlatans in the marketplace?
- What do we need to know about salmonella and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A H5N1 (bird flu) and the potentially serious risks they could pose to your family (including your pets)?
OrganicEye’s Director, Mark Kastel, illustrates why it’s so important to be a good label reader and suggests ways to connect with farmers and marketers from your local foodshed.
About Kastel’s Kitchen
Because of lax oversight by USDA, choosing certified organic food is just the first step in ensuring that you’re buying the best products for yourself and your family. In this series, OrganicEye’s Director, Mark Kastel, will tap his many years of experience in the organic movement to decode the best options from the grocery aisles, farmers markets, and online buying sites.
His perspective is based on over three decades of personal experience as a shopper, gardener, certified organic farmer, and organic business/cooperative consultant, as well as his work as the country’s preeminent organic industry watchdog for the past 20 years.
Mark first came to organics after nearly being disabled from pesticide poisoning. Even though he was already eating a healthy, whole food diet, he credits his move to all-organic—on the recommendation of one of the country’s preeminent environmental allergists—with his recovery. He now enjoys robust health, not only due to avoiding the agrochemical and drug residues often found in conventional food, but because of the exceptional nutrition inherent in true organic production. He has skin in the game and a passion for protecting the authenticity of everyone’s organic food, including his own.