One of these eggs in my pan this morning is a "Real" egg from my cousin who has a small flock and feeds them what hens really need and like. Including his Lobster Shells!The other is the best of the non local eggs - a Rowe Farm Egg. Rowe is the best of the factory eggs and is really making strides to offer a real egg at scale.
I always buy Rowe eggs when I cannot buy local eggs.
So a regular factory egg which is what is what our regulatory system is protecting is of much lower quality that the Rowe egg and unlike Rowe the operators have no plans or intention to improve.
The regular factory egg will have been layed by a hen in confinment. That is fed medicated feed and that has to have anti biotics to keep going.
So this then is our choice - buy local from a small operation that raises hens in their ideal conditions. Buy a Rowe egg. Or buy a factory egg.
Our inspection system regards the local egg as the most risky and is working hard to put them out of business.
Our Food Inspection system does not look at inherent quality - it only looks at the superficial quality.
It is the same with us. The inherent quality of what we eat affects our own health. The better quality of food we eat, the better our health.
You can choose to really eat healthy or take for granted the lies of the factory producers and trust their version of healthy.
Health starts with a fit to the ideal environment for an animal or a plant. For instance Rowe offer pasture raised beef and in season 100% grass fed. This is what cows are designed to do - eat grass! What cow ever ate corn before 100 years ago? They are not designed to eat corn and nor are they designed to be confined. That is why if they are factory raised, they HAVE to be medicated. Without the medication, they would die.
But our food inspection system ignores all of this. It accepts that all aspects of the factory system are normal and safe. They pay NO attention to evolutionary fit. So no attention to the system. They also have bought into the spurious claims of the food industry as to what is healthy. Such as this:
Corn Pops can be passed off as a healthy choice!
In the view of the regulator - this is the right way to raise a laying hen
In their view - this is the wrong way
If you eat food that is authentically healthy, your health will improve.
Choose please - choose with your wallet and you family's health in mind.
And during the election, ask your politician what she chooses too and ask her to explain her choice.
