Go to the supermarket or anywhere else to buy chicken or eggs, make sure you watch out for deceptive package label claims. When you see “farm raised”, “natural” or “free range” on the package label these terms are nothing more than deceptive marketing ploys to make you think you are getting a better piece of chicken or better eggs. Anyone who sells chicken and/or eggs can make these hollow claims because they are actually meaningless and of no value to you, the consumer of chicken meat and eggs.
Moreover, the claim of hormone-free is also meaningless since all chicken and eggs being sold in supermarkets today must, by law, be hormone-free.
There is only one claim that has meaning on a chicken package label and that is the term “organic”, a claim which is actually government regulated. A package of chicken or eggs labeled “organic” must have 100% of the chicken feed grown without chemical fertilizers, herbicides and any genetically-modified organisms for at least three years. Consequently, there is real value in “organic” chicken and eggs being sold in supermarkets and, critics charge, “organic” chicken and eggs may be worth paying more for.
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