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VIDEO. Organic, outdoors or in cages: how to choose eggs

2020-02-19T17:08:44.407Z


In "Food Checking", we try to reveal the behind the scenes of food. Did you know, for example, that the eggs sold in the merchant


Can you read the inscriptions engraved on the eggs that you find on the shelves of your supermarket? Note that all eggs sold commercially are marked with a code on their shells. A very mysterious, and even a little misleading, code that you have to know how to decipher.

First, there is a date, that of laying. Then there are always two letters that indicate the country of production. "FR" for a French breeding, "DE" for German hens, for example. Finally, we must dwell on the number preceding the two letters. If it is a zero , that does not mean that the product is zero ... On the contrary, it signals that we are dealing with organic eggs! In other words, they were laid by rather well treated hens, raised in the open air and fed without chemicals. If the first number is a 1 , it means that the hens were raised in the open air, if it is a 2 , that they were raised on the ground, finally if it is a 3 , that they lived in a cage, with the equivalent of an A4 sheet for each living space… “They stay crammed in these cages for a year and are sent to the slaughterhouse as soon as they start to lay less,” explains William Burkhardt, the young President for France of DxE, an association born in California to defend the animal cause.

According to the figures published by the National Center for the Promotion of the Egg (CNPO), 48% of those consumed in France come from cage farming, that is to say marked with the number 3. A minority proportion, but which is still very high, despite awareness campaigns by activists and images of chickens and chicks that lift the heart ... Fortunately, most of the large poultry producers have committed to stop this type of farming by 2025.

More a question of ethics than of taste

Another question arises: are eggs with a number 0 or 1, that is to say organic or laid by hens that frolic in the open air, are they better in taste? To verify this, we contacted a Parisian chef, Sarah Mouchot, owner of the Holybelly restaurant in Paris (11e), which serves hundreds of eggs per day, always organic.

Blindly, we made him taste four boiled eggs, one from each category. Result? Well, Sarah ranked the organic egg first, barely ... On the other hand, still blindfolded, she preferred those from farmed soil and cages to those raised outdoors! In terms of taste, the differences are therefore very small. "That said, even if the caged egg seemed to me the best, I would have continued to buy organic products," says Sarah Mouchot. It's a question of ethics! "

Source: leparis

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