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I realize nutrition topics are boring (people want to talk steroids) but I try to put 1 up atleast once a month and if you follow my log you will see me posting up recipes all the time and discussing proper nutrition as much as possible on the podcast.
Over the years I have pleaded with people to stop buying low quality eggs and other low quality foods. I've always said to make sure you buy the eggs that are HUMANE FRIENDLY. it must have that sticker on the carton otherwise you are part of the problem. when you buy low quality eggs from corporate slop farms that torture chickens, cut off their beaks, starve them, keep them in cages, etc. then there is no incentive for farms to change their ways. And as I correctly predicted 15 years ago when i first started writing about this stuff, you will end up with the problem we now have in America with egg and chicken prices going through the roof and not available because of the Avian flu which has wiped out tons of birds.
I was told by the IIFYM crowd that 'an egg is an egg'.. umm.. no its not
Chickens that are properly outdoors, pecking, not overcrowded and kept healthy are less suspeptible to disease.. just like how any other animal would have better immune systems and not spread disease.
high quality eggs should have a nice orange glow to the yolk. you should also never overcook eggs including over boiling them. the yolk should be runny and that is okay because when you buy high quality eggs they won't carry salmonella and other food borne bacteria. I can instantly tell just by tasting an egg if the chicken was fed crap or fed a natural diet. you will notice a chemical taste to walmart quality eggs while high quality eggs will have a fresh taste to them. I can only compare it to the difference between eating fresh caught wild fish vs. aquarium raised fish swimming in their own shit. I cannot tell you how many people i have met who hate eating fish, but when i make them FRESH caught fish they say it tastes like the best chicken they have had in their life.
In Europe and Australia they follow certain standards when it comes to farming. When i travel to other countries the food tastes different and better. its what they are feeding the animals and how they are living. in the USA due to corporate greed and corporate farms there are very low standards to our food and this surely will not be changing any time soon. so YOU must make the correct choices when buying your food. keep in mind also low quality chicken carries a very high amount of polyunsaturated fat which not only clogs in the outside of your arteries but also the insides too. but guess what? environment the chicken was raised in, diet, and even genetics of the bird will determine how much it will contain and that cheap walmart chicken you buy is the bottom of the pecking order (no pun intended). ... discuss this with any cardiologist and they will say they have given up trying to convince people how to make smarter choices. 95% of the chicken sold in american everyday is low quality and we wonder why people are having multiple heart attacks and cardiologists are so busy unclogging arteries. Same goes for grain finished beef vs. grass finished. You might as well eat candy because that is how poor the nutrition is in low quality foods vs. high quality.
Over the years I have pleaded with people to stop buying low quality eggs and other low quality foods. I've always said to make sure you buy the eggs that are HUMANE FRIENDLY. it must have that sticker on the carton otherwise you are part of the problem. when you buy low quality eggs from corporate slop farms that torture chickens, cut off their beaks, starve them, keep them in cages, etc. then there is no incentive for farms to change their ways. And as I correctly predicted 15 years ago when i first started writing about this stuff, you will end up with the problem we now have in America with egg and chicken prices going through the roof and not available because of the Avian flu which has wiped out tons of birds.
I was told by the IIFYM crowd that 'an egg is an egg'.. umm.. no its not
Chickens that are properly outdoors, pecking, not overcrowded and kept healthy are less suspeptible to disease.. just like how any other animal would have better immune systems and not spread disease.
high quality eggs should have a nice orange glow to the yolk. you should also never overcook eggs including over boiling them. the yolk should be runny and that is okay because when you buy high quality eggs they won't carry salmonella and other food borne bacteria. I can instantly tell just by tasting an egg if the chicken was fed crap or fed a natural diet. you will notice a chemical taste to walmart quality eggs while high quality eggs will have a fresh taste to them. I can only compare it to the difference between eating fresh caught wild fish vs. aquarium raised fish swimming in their own shit. I cannot tell you how many people i have met who hate eating fish, but when i make them FRESH caught fish they say it tastes like the best chicken they have had in their life.
In Europe and Australia they follow certain standards when it comes to farming. When i travel to other countries the food tastes different and better. its what they are feeding the animals and how they are living. in the USA due to corporate greed and corporate farms there are very low standards to our food and this surely will not be changing any time soon. so YOU must make the correct choices when buying your food. keep in mind also low quality chicken carries a very high amount of polyunsaturated fat which not only clogs in the outside of your arteries but also the insides too. but guess what? environment the chicken was raised in, diet, and even genetics of the bird will determine how much it will contain and that cheap walmart chicken you buy is the bottom of the pecking order (no pun intended). ... discuss this with any cardiologist and they will say they have given up trying to convince people how to make smarter choices. 95% of the chicken sold in american everyday is low quality and we wonder why people are having multiple heart attacks and cardiologists are so busy unclogging arteries. Same goes for grain finished beef vs. grass finished. You might as well eat candy because that is how poor the nutrition is in low quality foods vs. high quality.
(half a cow)
