usnret Loc: Woodhull Il

So what is an organic egg? Aren't all eggs organic? What is an unorganic egg? Do organic eggs come from organically raised raised chickens fed only organic grains? I've noticed lately that more and more items in my local grocery store are marketing organic produce including meat, vegtables an even dairy at a much higher price. A search of the USDA web site only made it even more confusing as to what qualifies a food item item to be certified as being organic. Cant wait to see which of the fast food giants are first to jump on the organic bandwagon. Organic soy bergers now on the menu.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

If I remember right, none of the Federal agencies have an official definition of "organic". Maybe some states do, but it is mostly whatever the seller/supplier says it is.

There are non-organic eggs, those little two part plastic ones to put candy in at Easter.
Maybe the guy running the molding machine had KFC for lunch?

Oh, I have seen Vegan burgers, Soy Burgers and Veggie Burgers on the menus of places here in Southern California.

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

IMHO, those are just advertising bull poop.
From what i have personally observed, animals grown for mass consumption are given antibiotics and dietary supplements. The animals themselves have been specifically bred and are not wild & free species.
Even the free range chicken is doubtful when they are fed the same store bought GMO harvested grains.

I think the only real organic egg is between someones legs

cmc4214 Loc: S.W. Pennsylvania

While it is true that there is a lot of mis-leading marketing of "organic" there are true organic farms, though most are not major producers, (mostly due to costs and losses of being truly organic) If you want true organic you have to research the farm that raised the product
While I prefer organic, it is not possible to feed the world and remain 100 percent organic. People complain about anti-biotics, and while I will say that I believe they are being over-used, in reality many herds of cattle and flocks of chickens and other livestock would have been decimated without them.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

No antibiotics and organic feed for the chickens?

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

Most generally organic meat, milk and poultry is where the animals are not fed medicated feeds. Feedlot fed beef comes from cattle that have been fed medicated feed, which is a necessity. That’s because ruminants (animals with multiple stomachs designed by nature to convert high fiber-cellulose, low protein plants such as grass into low fiber high protein meat) digestive systems are designed for forages, not grain. Feeding grain makes the animal grow much faster and reach slaughter weight in a bit over half the time it would take if the cow were eating forages only. However, grain reduces the natural pH of the rumen, causing acidosis and all too often, abscessed livers and feeding low doses of antibiotics reduces the frequency of dead animals from acidosis or condemned carcasses from accessed livers.

Poultry and swine have no problem eating grain, but antibiotics in the feed reduces mortality or reduced production from natural illnesses, which is compounded by animals raised in confinement.

To simplify it, if you work in a crowed office you are more likely to contract the common cold. Were you to take continual low doses of antibiotics, it’s a given that you would have less sickness. The problem is that whereas livestock is naturally short lived and slaughter animals unnaturally short lived, bacteria doesn’t have time to become resistant to the antibiotics. Humans are far longer lived, giving the natural or contracted bacteria more time to develop resistance, rendering antibiotics ineffective.

Livestock can be vaccinated against illnesses and still be considered organic. That’s because vaccinations prevent animals from dying unnaturally or in pain whereas medicated feeds are strictly for increased production or reduced feed consumption.

I dislike grass fed beef. The meat is tougher because the animal is older and had to do a lot of walking to find eats while a feedlot steer stands there and waits for the feed wagon to come by. Grass fed beef also tastes more like wild meats, especially venison, which I don’t like. Even deer hunters will tell you that the venison from deer in north Missouri that have camped out in cornfields eating corn is much milder in flavor than venison from the Ozarks where the deer’s main diet is acorns.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

I can't say I noticed anything special about U.S. foods when I was your side of the pond, but I'm pleased our meat seems to be a lot more 'natural' than that mentioned in the answer above.

HamB

The eggs are made with recycled plastic.

erandolph Loc: La Pine, Oregon USA

Thanks for an actual answer!👍

agillot

I dont buy ANYTHING marked organic . Dont want to live forever .

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I avoid anything labeled as organic. 1. Is it really? 2. So what? 3. It's more expensive.

fetzler Loc: North West PA

All chickens and all eggs are organic. All food except for salt, water and a few other inorganic salts are organic. Animals and plants are composed of organic chemicals.

For foods, organic usually means that fecal matter is used for fertilizer.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I think it refers to what the animals are fed. That's a world I don't want to enter.

I bought a dozen and a half eggs a couple of days ago - $8.55. Because so many chickens got the flu, there aren't as many left to provide us with eggs.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Some people will buy anything if it is labeled organic, a term which to me means absolutely nothing. I rank it right up there with "Non-GMO."

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

This is the operative term.