Advertising Eggs

[tammyd57]

A.T. Hagan :

This page has a definition of each 'label' you can call eggs by:

http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/confinement_farm/facts/guide_egg_labels.html

Hope this helps.

Keep in mind those are just the definitions the Human Society of the United States would like everyone to use. They are in no way official.

The fact of the matter is that except for "organic" which is now regulated by the USDA there are no standards to define what all these terms mean thus the confusion. Your best bet would be to cultivate your customers with a fresh product that they can clearly see and/or taste is different from the factory raised eggs from the grocery store. That's the kind of advertising that is the best.

.....Alan.​

You are correct, there are no clearly defined official labels. That's why those labels on eggs at the store are so confusing. They don't really mean anything other than advertising ploys.​

 

[AZKat]

Make sure that you check out the laws in your state. For example, in Arizona, its perfectly legal to sell unwashed, ungraded eggs on a small scale, but you can't legally describe the eggs as 'fresh' or 'local'.

 

[PolarBear]

Quote:
That really surprises me. Do you know the reason for this law?

 

[UnkleMacsChickenShack]

Hey that was a great post on classifying eggs !!!! I LEARN HERE EVERYDAY....Thanx ...
The article refers here and there to vegatarian diet...
I guess my question would be ...How can you possibly put a chicken on a vegataruian diet when you know they eat all kinds of bugs arent bugs considered meat ?...LOL....

 

[AZKat]

Polar Bear: I really have no idea. Based on the rest of the law, I think that its that 'fresh' and 'local' have specific legal definitions, and since small scale egg producers (anyone who sells 750 dozen eggs or less a year) are basically unregulated, there isn't any way to be sure that the eggs meet that legal definition.

UnkleMac: Not all chickens have access to bugs, even chickens who are technically 'free range', so I'd guess that it has to do with the feed that is given them. And a lot of people, myself included, are fine with chickens eating bugs and meat scraps from the table, but don't like the idea of chickens being fed slaughterhouse waste.

 

[PunkinPeep]

It surprises me that "organic" includes vegetarian fed. I was thinking about becoming certified organic - hadn't really looked into it yet - but my "organic" diet would include farm raised crickets. That's not vegetarian. I would like to see more regulation on the definitions.

I wonder if there's anything that we, here at byc, could do to influence some standard definitions.

 

[mstricer]

I think in order to list anything organic, NO pesticides, herbsides, no meds. no hormones for over five years on your land and the USDA regulates it. I could be wrong. Also doesn't most layer have some sort of protein in it. Plus how do you stop a chicken from eatting bug?