Select Whole Foods Market Stores: 12-Ct Grade A Cage-Free Plus Large Brown Eggs

prop 12 passed in 2018 but didn't become law until early 2022. Then there was the usual lawsuits filed to hold up enforcement so in reality, California wasn't really cage free until July 2022 when the last of the lawsuits were ruled on. The proposition passing back in 2018 should have given egg producers plenty of time to prepare but the recent price surge is evidence that they were not prepared

Who would've thought we'd be rushing to Whole Foods for the best price on something? What alternate world are we living in?

I regularly get eggs at Sam's club for $3 per dozen, or $6 for a package of two dozen so this is not a big savings for me. However, others may not be so fortunate.

I get JUMBOS ( some have had DOUBLE yolks ) for $5.90/dz.

"Consumers are increasingly skeptical of 'marketing terms' that bear little relation to the realities of how the eggs are farmed, and rightly so," says Jeff Hinds, vice president of quality assurance, compliance and food safety at Vital Farms, where I recently – full disclosure – went on a sponsored tour. Here's what I learned about which terms mean what:

Caged: Hens are confined to cages with a 67-square inch space each. They never see the light of day and consume a corn or soy diet. Over 90 percent of eggs in the U.S. come from hens that are kept in cages for their entire egg-laying lives.
Cage-Free: These ladies have more room than caged hens, since each is given less than 1 square foot. Still, they're not entirely "free," since they're confined to barns and consume a corn or soy diet.
Free-Range: Allotted less than 2 square feet per hen, these animals have more space than their caged and cage-free peers, but they don't get outdoors as much as you may think. Some seldom get to see the light of day and many eat a corn- or soy-based feed.
Pasture-Raised: These ladies are given at least 108 square feet each and consume some feed and lots of grass, bugs, worms and anything else they can find in the dirt. They tend to be let out of the barns early in the morning and called back in before nightfall.
Pastured-raised hens also produce healthier eggs, according to a 2003 study out of Pennsylvania State University. In it, researchers found that one pasture-raised egg contains twice as much omega-3 fat, three times more vitamin D, four times more vitamin E and seven times more beta-carotene than eggs from hens raised on traditional feed

How many eggs you got and what're you selling them at?

Wait until Cali's current pork case gets through the Supreme Court. Say goodbye to affordable bacon, ham, sausage, and pork rinds.

Cali trying to bully everyone else around the country.

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