“That’s all well and good,” you say. “But how does all that chickenish behavior make a pastured egg any better than a store-bought egg?” Well I'm glad you asked, because that is a great question. To answer it, we need to trace your store-bought egg back to its source.

Did you know that almost every egg sold at your local supermarket comes from "factory farms"? A factory farm is a series of buildings which can house tens of thousands of birds in cages with no reason to ever let them outside. After all, a chicken can survive in an area where standing up and sitting down is the only exercise it will ever get.

Factory farms maximize the number of hens which are laying by utilizing every square foot of floor space for row upon row of cages, stacking them to the ceiling, feeding the hens where they are confined, collecting the eggs on conveyor belts for processing. These hens produce cheap eggs and that is why you pay the price that you do at the supermarket.

The majority of hens raised in factory egg farms spend their entire lives locked in cages, never seeing the sun, unable to walk around, forage or do anything else chickens would naturally do. They just eat, poop, sleep and lay. While this definitely produces the cheapest egg for the consumer, we believe that this is a terribly cruel practice. Confined the way they are, fans must bring air in to the factory house, and they breathe in dried fecal material, creating health problems in the hens. Antibiotics in their food and water help, but most hens die long before their normal life expectancy.

Not only is this an inhumane and reprehensible practice and is quite frankly terrible custodianship of the animals in our care, but it also has an adverse effect on the egg produced by such hens. It's not just an opinion, it's scientifically provable.

You are paying for a cheaper egg, but you are getting far less nutrition, and greater amounts of those things you want to avoid: bad cholesterol and saturated fats.

Did you know that you have to have to eat seven (7) store bought eggs to get the same benefit that one (1) pastured free range egg produces?

What is the real cost of your supermarket egg now? It winds up being far more expensive to buy a factory produced egg than a pastured free range egg.

Pastured free range chickens are being raised in an ethically, morally and environmentally responsible way. In every way, from its hatching through its retirement, a pastured free range chicken is treated far, far better than those birds raised to produce eggs for the supermarket. I refer you again to the first paragraph.