Today is the time to switch to Fresh Eggs from hens that are "Cage-Free, Go Cruel Free "

 

This blog post and story is all about eggs. Its all about chicken or hen eggs. Its about the eggs that we love to cook and eat every morning. Eggs that are part of our baking recipe. Eggs that gives a creamy taste in our soup. And eggs that we take care to raise chicks that turns into hens, because they will produce more eggs for you.


If you have read the title of this blog and you get triggered by the word " cage-free and go cruel free", don't worry, I'll' be sharing some info here why it is good to switch to fresh eggs that comes from hens who goes in their natural behavior in a free range and cage-free environment.

Because chicken hens that are staying in a small cage or a battery cage is not the right way, it means that more chickens are forced to stay in small cages and they limited their movements and sometimes they get sick and stressed, the result is that these hens will produce bad tasting eggs and plus there's animal cruelty treatment.  We know that they are animals, but we need to take care of them because they give something in kind to us humans, and as give-take scenario, we should give them the nice treatment. 



I've visited some farms around the country, and I've learned from organic farmers that chickens that roams around freely and not cramped in a cage, eat organic (no chemical feeds or injections), can produce the best tasting eggs. I have tasted several organic eggs that they are good.

I thought that the practice of free range or roaming hens are only practiced by organic farmers, but now big chicken farms are now shifting to a new practice like the cage free and go cruel free kind  of treatment to chickens.

Instead of roaming around the farm, these chickens stays in a giant chicken coop or covered chicken house, they roam freely around the coop house, can spread their wings,  can stretch, can run and fly around, and its the natural behavior of chickens. Thats why they produce good and tasty eggs.

And yes, I've tasted the cage free, cruelty free eggs and its the best tasty eggs that I have tried and I let my family cook some sunny side up egg, and all they can say is that the taste is good and the size of the egg yolk is much bigger than the mass produced eggs version that comes from chickens in battery cages.



Thanks to AKF ( Animal Kingdom Foundation) for sharing the information to us consumers that we should try and switch to cage-free, go cruel free fresh eggs that are produced by local farmers. 

AKF is a non-profit animal welfare non-government organization (NGO) committed to improving the living and welfare conditions of animals in the country and eliminating the cruel trade of dog meat for human consumption. AKF is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and duly enlisted with the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Animal Industry (DA – BAI) . (source)

AKF invites everyone to join in their cage-free, go cruel free movement and help in sharing information to farmers, sellers, resto owners and consumers and change the food selection for eggs and the better way of doing a chicken and egg farm. 

Thanks to AKF for sending a dozen of cage-free, go cruel free fresh eggs for us to try it at home, it helped us to open our eyes and understand that these chickens should be loved and taken care properly.

 

If you want to know more about Cage-free eggs and the campaign
Pls go to their website - http://akf.org.ph/cage-free-go-cruel-free/

read the brochure online - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WqVk-fOOETt4f5_-El-gjdzvf5715WGn/view

and watch this video - https://youtu.be/3ThXk5gOLn4

  

Pls like and join AKF Facebook page about Cage-free, Go Cruel free Eggs
- go visit-  facebook.com/cagefreegocruelfree 

From their FB page, I've learned so many trivia the benefit of Cage-free, Go Cruel free Eggs

Here's what I've learned
- Cage-free, Go Cruel free Eggs have less calories and cholesterol
- Richer in vitamins A, D, E and B2
- Eggs are bigger
- Egg yolks are bigger
- Eggs are much tastier and flavorful (egg taste) 
- Chickens in free range environment and cage-free are healthier and always happy (as the farmers said)
- Chickens can stretch their wings, run around and have much more lifespan
- Cage free egg laying hens can produce more eggs in their own nest 
- Chickens are not stressed, not aggressive 

Go visit their FB page for more trivia and info 

 

Here are two kinds of eggs
left: cage-free, go cruel free eggs
right: regular eggs from the grocery

You'll see that the cage-free, go cruel free eggs looks bigger vs. the one from the grocery, but if you look closely in a different angle, their size looks the same.



Cracking the two eggs
left: cage-free, go cruel free eggs 
right: regular egg from the grocery.

Im so sorry that I accidentally broke the yolk. But you can see that the cage-free, go cruel free eggs --- the yolk is much bigger.

But that's the appearance only, best way to review the quality is to compare the taste when cooked. 
I can say that I prefer the cage-free, go cruel free eggs, because its much more tastier vs. the one from the grocery -- which is less taste.

The cage-free, go cruel free eggs is much more creamier and the yolk is much more hard yellow vs. the eggs from the grocery.

After these taste test, we are switching to cage-free, go cruel free eggs, but the thing we worry is that the supply is a big rare  and because of the pandemic, you need to reach to a good source of eggs from farms who practice cage-free, go cruel free chicken farms. 

But this blog post is just an initial entry. 
My mission now is to search for farms and also stores that are practicing cage-free, go cruel free.

I will update this blog post soon and add more info and list of stores or groceries with cage-free, go cruel free eggs for sale.




At home, the cage-free, go cruel free eggs sent by AKF are now turned into ---  egg sandwich.
Taste review - wow!!! its much more creamier and taste better 




My wife baked some bibingka using the cage-free, go cruel free eggs 



Sometimes I cooked chicken noodle soup with cage-free, go cruel free eggs for my breakfast.
The egg yolk taste good talaga! 



We used the cage-free, go cruel free eggs to cooked my son's fave dinner --- scrambled eggs with tomatoes.  



And here's my wife's breakfast fix -- sunny side up and toasted egg + coffee.
You can see here that the cage-free, go cruel free eggs -- yolk are much bigger and has a hard yellow color -- almost an orange color. 



To my blog readers, now you have read some info about AKF campaign and why it is good to switch to cage-free, go cruel free eggs. 

 I hope you can visit their website and FB pages for more updated info, and I hope you can share this blog post too to invite others to join the big switch !! 




Let's choose cage-free eggs!!

http://akf.org.ph/cage-free-go-cruel-free/

https://www.facebook.com/cagefreegocruelfree

https://www.instagram.com/cagefreegocruelfree/