When we used to have chickens at home some visitors asked if we really ate the eggs from those chickens. They wouldn’t have the confidence to do this.
They said they preferred the eggs from the supermarket, because those eggs are checked and stamped.
This is rather twisted thinking, because my grandmother’s hens led a happy live: they had plenty of space to roam, a house for shelter, a rooster and good chicken food like corn and grass. You could really taste the difference in the eggs.
By contrast the reality for most of the hens producing the supermarket eggs is quite different. But for some reason the consumer has totally detached the product they see on the shelf from the reality of food production or they clinch to the advertising images and smooth talk of marketing specialist ofthe food industry, used to gloss over the reality.
