I don't know if I agree with all you said but I am sure I would feel better about eating your eggs and chicken and drinking your wine at the very least. Doing the multiple quotes is impressive also, I gotta learn those posting gadgets.
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You didn't. But you set a price point useful for the general discussion. My response quoted your writing but wasn't necessarily targeting you. Really, my comment was tangential to the discussion (as usual) and was probably unnecessary.
I will respond directly to you now, Don. I can't taste the difference between wines. They all taste like a wrung out gym socks to me. Some are harder to swallow than others, but all are basically the same thing to me.
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That's exactly how I feel comparing my homemade wine to the sulfide-filled cough syrup from the store! But what if you go beyond taste? Let's even skip nutritional differences and just stick with the cleaner carcass. If nothing else is gained, you know the animal health, you were in charge of the evisceration, you know your bird is clean. If you did your job, you're very unlikely to get sick eating your own bird. Even twice as much for a clean bird may make solid financial sense. You are necessarily comparing a known quantity to an unknown quantity. Beyond that, your animals ate whatever is in the bagged stuff your paying $28/100 for AND bugs, greens, worms and who knows what else. They got to chicken it up for a couple of weeks. That's not foolish. That has value. They weeded, watered mowed and fertilized your lawn while having fun. That makes real solar dollar sense. Your earthworms say thanks.
Concerning eggs, nutritional density aside, I can see the difference a fresh egg makes in my baking or in the skillet. That's part of the value people place on buying my eggs. They also know my products are from animals they know, that they can see, and that they know are clean and well cared-for. Animals running in the sunshine. Feet in grass, beaks in the cow manure. Living, breathing, scratching, running, predator-fearing omnivorous animals who get off the roost and work in the morning as opposed to caged animals who lie around eating corn and beans and laying eggs until they are too brittle to lay any more. My customers value our stewardship. I'm just repeating a point you already made:
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Customers or no customers, taste or no taste, long chain Omega-3 fatty acids aside I place a high dollar value on knowing the source.
My chicken may taste better to me for any number of reasons, real or imagined. But, I think you agree, there are real, non-subjective reasons why the chicken actually is better. This is what Costco can't sell. Don't sell your egg customers short. "Delicious" may just be the easiest, least embarrassing adjective to express their appreciation of your excellent stewardship.
