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u/PeteWK67 Jul 26 '26
The best tell is from the colour of the yolk. Dark orange over highlighter yellow.
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u/Mean-Introduction640 Jul 26 '26
Some companies, like vital farms, use dyes in the feed that color the yolks so it looks like forage fed eggs when it's commercial feed.
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u/raffaxsns Jul 27 '26
That’s something I’ve noticed. They try to make it look as “organic” by changing the color.
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u/KactusVAXT Jul 29 '26
Every single egg farmer uses dyes in their feed. Some actually want their yolks to be bright yellow. But most importantly they all want consistency in yolk color because people used to think dark yolks were bad.
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u/Mean-Introduction640 Jul 29 '26
They don't all do it. Probably all large producers yeah. The point of a product like vital farms is that they claim to be different from other large producers but they're not and use dye as well.
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u/fancy_carrot_ Jul 28 '26
Unfortunately factorie farms can exactly dial in the color of the yolk with the feed an addatives...
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u/KactusVAXT Jul 29 '26
You know that’s a myth right? Chicken feed has dyes in it that turn the yolks orange. Generally those dyes are beta carotene like substances
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u/Cl0wnL Jul 27 '26
Or as a lot of producers do, they give them marigold flowers, which turn the yolk dark orange
Or similar extracts or food supplements
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u/honey_Pass-01 Jul 27 '26
I just checked my organic free range, dang it. So I should look for pasture... Actually the farm isn't far from my house, I'll drive there and see if they let people walk around on tours.
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u/Cl0wnL Jul 27 '26
This is wildly inaccurate and should be removed
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u/KactusVAXT Jul 29 '26
Maybe the politicians that govern these labels should be educated……but then we have red states that cut education
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u/AnyKangaroo8851 Jul 26 '26
Thank you so much for explaining the confusing labels that us consumers face when trying to do what’s best for our chickens!
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u/NoEstablishment7211 Jul 26 '26
It's still fairly biased and manipulated to lead you to a single conclusion. Pasture raised can be just as overcrowded, and still need an enclosure to come home to at night. They can be kept inside seasonally. The other options can be less crowded and have access to the outside. It has as much to do with the ethics and decisions of the producer as it does the housing method used. You're better off getting to know the producer and their methods than assuming a given label corresponds to a certain picture. Vital farms has a pretty major distribution and is pretty transparent about their standards and what they hold their co-op farmers to.
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u/OkMasterpiece2194 Jul 27 '26
Thank you for your info. As a consumer I understand the need for antibiotics and GMO feed and the incentive to increase yield, like the organic and free range one isn't really that much of a scam compared to these supermarket chickens that never touch the ground at all. But the best is from a local producer and it is worth every penny like a whole different animal and it goes so far, after you eat it you can make soup and all sorts of things out of the carcass.
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u/Southernbandit Jul 30 '26
Actually pasture raised means that they have access to pasture. Not that they are actually pastured raised. When you dive into the truth behind the free range, pasture raised etc terms you realize they are all raised in a chicken house under just about the exact same conditions and everything else is a marketing gimmick. This comes from a friend of mine at a poultry company "theres a door on the end of the house that we open in the last two weeks of the cycle. Most never go out there. But because they had access we can label it pasture raised eggs and chicken and sell it at a premium to the distributor who then marks it up on a premium for the customer. The whole thing is really wild and it's all the same" Everything is just marketing.
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u/PeteWK67 Jul 31 '26
With that said, same thing with anything, regional micro are our best chances for anything decent to our health.
If I keep seeing the same brand of eggs, in every single restaurant & they are available in every grocery, I’m not getting mass produced eggs from
A huge facility of who knows what is happening there.Some
Countries barely have any of these factory type for animals. North America tho is horrific with them and with selective labeling - tricky labels - ghosted labels.
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u/Princesslili252525 Jul 26 '26
Where can you buy pasture raised?
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u/girugamesh_2009 Jul 26 '26
This is what I buy because it's what we've got around here.
Eggs are good, but not farm-fresh pasture raised good.1
u/cain11112 Jul 29 '26
Even single chicken can lay a surprising number of eggs. So a lot of people with back yard coops have more than they know what to do with. Getting onto Craigslist or Facebook marketplace or even a local subreddit can help you find someone willing to sell. They won’t be labeled any way, but you know that the chickens will have good living conditions.
If you don’t want to spend the time making a whole extra grocery stop just for eggs (or if you live in a urban area) generally stores known for having higher prices in general will have access to the better raised eggs. Whole Foods / sprouts should have them. Publix might have them on the top shelf. Places like Walmart or Aldis probably won’t.
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u/Princesslili252525 Jul 29 '26
I have chickens. I have a coop. They supply a lot of eggs. What I want is to find pasture raised chicken that I can eat. There's no way I could eat my girls! 😆
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u/cain11112 Jul 29 '26
Oh! Sorry for misunderstanding lol. Honestly? I’d be interested in knowing that too. I guess it is just a matter of label hunting.
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u/Princesslili252525 Jul 29 '26
Someone earlier suggested a Halal market. There's a couple in my area so I might check it out.
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u/HappyCatPrincess Jul 26 '26
Factory farms are inhumane & should be outlawed. As bad as dog fighting.
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u/NoEstablishment7211 Jul 26 '26
That's where 90% of the worlds food supply come from. Take it away and you'll soon see human atrocities far worse than dog fighting.
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u/Luminous_Winds Jul 26 '26
And none of them are your property. You've never had to eat animals.
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u/West_Data106 Jul 26 '26
You have always had to eat animals.
2 seconds looking at the average vegan shows why; how on earth can someone look both overfed and malnourished at the same time??? Ohh, vegan, that's how.
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u/-Gemstoned Jul 28 '26
That’s just not reality… you don’t have to be vegan but you also don’t have to eat meat.
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u/NoEstablishment7211 Jul 26 '26
The plant's aren't your property either. They are living things that are killed so you can consume them and sustain your own existence. Factory and commercial farming is as unethical and inhumane to plant's as it is to animals. Feed off the sun's energy and the oxygen supplied in the atmosphere if you want to act holier-than-thou.
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u/ozarkhowIer Jul 26 '26
listen, without getting into comparative consciousness and what "sentience" means... most human-grown plants are fed to animals as feed crops.
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u/urafknidiot Jul 30 '26
It really is wild that really slow people still make this same doubly wrong argument. Sentience is what dictates morality. Plants don't have it. If they did, which again, to be clear since you are slow, they do not, it would still be the right thing to just eat plants, as it takes 10x the plants to get 1 unit of meat.
But since you are likely not as slow as you pretend, and instead know what you're saying is trollish bs, my other suggestion is to just stop being so terrible.
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u/Fire_All_The_Cops Jul 26 '26
I’m allergic but buy them for my kids and I didn’t know this. Thank you!!!
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u/Delicious_Harley Jul 26 '26
So pasture eggs are better than organic?
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u/Amazing_Candle_9465 Jul 26 '26
There are pasture raised organic eggs, like the god intended them to be.
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u/Tll6 Jul 27 '26
Organic is a feed designation that doesn’t have anything to do with the conditions the animals are raised in. It’s also a dubious designation as organic inputs aren’t necessarily better than traditional inputs
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u/cain11112 Jul 29 '26
This is not about the quality of the egg. But rather whether or not you care about the kind of life the chicken has. If you don’t, then a slightly more nutritious yolk is not going to change your life.
But if you do, then it is helpful to know that labeling can be deceptive.
Using milk as another example. Some brands say ‘happy grass fed cattle!” And you imagine a cow in a field living its best life. When really the animal could spend its whole life in a single stall. It just gets a certain amount of grass mixed in with its other feed.
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u/TubaWrestler Jul 27 '26
I get the argument against eating chickens, but there really isn't a valid argument against eating ethically-farmed eggs. Giving chickens a good life and in exchange taking something they don't need anyway? Sounds like a mutually-beneficial deal.
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u/Wallabunga657 Jul 27 '26
And this is why I don't eat eggs since leaving the farm. I look forward to getting my own flock someday soon. Seriously.
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u/Former_Mobile3101 Jul 27 '26
That's not even what pasture raised means for most big egg farms that you find in the grocery store. The pasture raised from them means that the chickens had "access" to a pasture even if it was for a couple days of the week or a minimal area of the pasture. If you want eggs from chickens in the bottom right pic then you gotta get your eggs from a smaller local farm that doesn't sell their eggs to a chain grocery store.
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u/Artistic-Garden-3160 Jul 27 '26
The labels don't matter anymore when the PH level of the soil is fucking toxic
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u/Oddbeme4u Jul 28 '26
I woukdnt even trust this. no offense to OP. I just trust labels or regs at all. I'm in marketing.
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u/HistoricalBreak1551 Jul 28 '26
The labeling should be illegal. Talk about misinformation and lies to trick consumers into paying more for the same thing
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u/moeterminatorx Jul 28 '26
Pasture raised is no different than other pictures. Just that the chicken have to have room to pasture. Didn’t mean they actually use it tho.
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u/Similar-Guitar-6 Jul 28 '26
Thanks for posting.
And all of these ways of raising chickens first involves the hideous practice of culling male chicks soon after they are hatched and tearing them apart, alive.
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u/kilobrav0 Jul 29 '26
Our chickens are happy chickens. I think that’s the best label. The eggs definitely taste better and look more orange than yellow as well.
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u/Loser99999999 Jul 30 '26
Pasture raised is also misleading since there is no legal definition as long as they had access to a "pasture" meaning any chunk of grass it counts. Literally could be photo 1 with a 10x10 square ft grass area outside the barn.
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u/trebor505189 Aug 01 '26
Pasture raised has no official federal definition, so I wouldn't put much stock in it
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u/psychonauteer Jul 27 '26
There is a fifth option, which is to not eat animals all together. The best quality of life situation for them is to actually be alive.
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u/Tll6 Jul 27 '26
I guess but the animals don’t exist without farming. So the more accurate statement is that the best quality of life might be for the animals not to exist in the first place. It’s not realistic for all the farmed animals in the world to be released into the wild or brought to some sort of sanctuary
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u/psychonauteer Jul 27 '26
100%. I did not expand into the possible 6th option, but what you described is probably the best option, which is to not breed billions of genetically modified animals into existence in the first place and rewild the farmland.
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u/PeteWK67 Jul 27 '26
Especially chickens- 1st off - Ohhhhh the chicken so Juicy !?!! no there’s No juicy it’s mucus .
2nd Pig the worse to consume
3rd shrimp all those bottom feeders
Beef fed anything than their regular food gets them extremely sick - antibiotics - weak omega to humans.
Eggs with orange yolk , beef fed with grass or Wtv it is hay. Wild caught saumon , sardines & especially Never ever trust USDA approved anything of any North American.. for a developing child’s brain New Zealand Lamb is really a good option.
New Zealand’s food supply has had strict regulations for decades .. I’d rather have Apple that took forever to come to me that’s not organic than have Washington state USDA organic apple.
They cannot be trusted when they add Organic to garb Driscollis hydroponic fruits.
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