Organic Eggs May Come From Factory Farms

Are Your “Organic” Eggs All They're Cracked Up To Be?

A new report from The Cornucopia Institute, Scrambled Eggs: Separating Factory Farm Egg Production from Authentic Organic Agriculture, warns consumers of the trend of factory farms jumping on the organic bandwagon. According to the Institute, "For...industrial-scale producers, "organic" appears to be nothing more than a profitable marketing term that they apply to the agro-industrial production system." These producers are simply substituting organic feed and eliminating harmful synthetics, such as pesticides and antibiotics, the Institute claims.

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