Case studies in the Politics of Food and Choice: Eggs & Salt

Courtesy Donklephant  Sun, 07/26/2009 - 4:24pm

I stumbled across an interesting article on eggs yesterday while sitting in Borders reading up on something I’m going to be doing an in depth series of posts on.

Apparently a study at the USDA has shown that factory farm eggs are far less nutritious than pastured eggs. I don’t know what causes this… although one can imagine the havoc that living in a cage your entire life that is barely bigger than your body, having your beak...



 

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