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> notice that the Tesco brand organic eggs are from roaming chickens.
doesnt guarantee that their range support insects and greens for them (
most likelly not if a big scale farmer )
> Does anyone know if they are also grain fed?
yes are grains seems necessarry to insure egg production in a commercial
operation ( via hormonal disturbance )
I would not be suprised
> if the "standard" organic eggs had better omega-3 levels than the
> Columbus ones, and probably have better overall nutrional value too.
organic eggs are not necessarry better if coming from a big scale producer.
what makes a real omega 3 rich eggs is the diet rich in greens and smalls
animals .this can be achieve only when the chickens are raised in a very
small farm where they can roam free or they are in a pen moved daily on big
pastures .
flax seed fed chickens migt have more omega 3 s but i doubt the egg is as
well balanced that coming from a really free ranged chickens .( as the main
ingredients of the feed is wheat and soya and other omega 6 rich grains )
by the way legally the label free range means only that each chickens have
something like 4 square feets of range ( not enough to feed it )
jean-claude