Eggs Are Not What They're Cracked Up To Be

NORTHVILLE, Mich. - Oct. 26, 2013 - PRLog -- In January, earlier this year, England went through one of the worst scandals in recent history. This time, it didn’t include the Royal Monarchy but rather a scandal involving horsemeat and pigs being sold as “beef.”  When Burger King (in the UK) has to make a statement that they would change meat suppliers (and they were not even part of the scandal) it must have been big news.  In the same month, China was caught trying to sell rats off as lamb. In this country, you could be eating farm-raised salmon labeled as “wild-caught.” Expensive pomegranate juice may contain cheap apple juice and soybean oil may have had chlorophyll added to it so it passes for olive oil. (Heads-up: if you’re paying $5.50 for an 8 oz. bottle of olive oil, it’s not pure olive oil). Among the greatest label offenders are honey and spices. Honey may have high fructose corn syrup added and saffron, the most expensive spice in the world, may contain grass that has been dyed yellow. The award for the greatest label lie must go to trans-fats. The government states that as long as there are less than 0.5 grams of trans-fats in a food item, it can label the food as trans-fat-free. The only problem is that all those trans-fat free foods add up to a nice coronary artery disease. If the label has ANY hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oil, it is not trans-fat-free.

World-wide food labeling fraud in 2011-2012 has eclipsed the previous 30 years. There were 1,300 records of food fraud from the years 1980 to 2010. That increased by 60% from 2011 to 2012…that’s 800 new food fraudulent records added to the database in 2 years. (source: U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention's (USP) Food Fraud Database)

The state with the broadest consumer protection laws in the country is California. It has seen more food–labeling litigation than any other state.  At the top of the list of food labeling frauds are eggs. About 98% of all eggs purchased in this country come from caged hens, yet the labels may say they are either “Farm Fresh,” “Free-Ranged” or “All Natural.” Even organic eggs can come from hens living in poor conditions. These factory farm operators can have as many as 85,000 “organic” hens in one building. Federal law requires “outdoor access” for these hens yet only about 3-5% have access to a small opening that goes to the outside. For that 3-5% of the hens that do get to go outside, there are no requirements for how long they have to be outdoors pecking around for bugs, grubs, and insects. Meanwhile, the gullible public envisions these “free-range” chickens running around outside eating insects all day when they may be "cooped" up with thousands of other chickens...There are no requirements that they even get any daylight at all. Hens need to forage, they need to nest, they need to dust-bathe (reduces stress) and they need to walk around and stretch their wings. But instead, hens are forced to molt which means they are starved for 7-14 days to produce better eggs. So what kind of eggs are you really eating? Are they truly free-range or “cage-free?”  Are they Omega-3 enhanced? Or were they just given a diet of flaxseeds for the last 2 weeks of their lives so they could get away with saying that they have much more “omega-3s" than the competition. For a more detailed description of how the egg-labeling industry is scamming the public, watch our short video at http://www.getleanin12.com/blog/nutrition/eggs-2/