Tuesday morning I went to my grandparents’ house and my mother and I prepared breakfast. Actually, she did most of the preparing while I played around with my sustainably-raised eggs to see what was unique about them.
Here are the results:
Happy new year to everyone. Best wishes for happiness and peace in 2009!
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Couldn’t watch the video. Anyway, Happy New Year!
Happy New year!
What do they mean it’s sustainable?Are they really more sustainable compared to other kind of chicken farming?Sometimes I really doubt it when they slap those words on farmed goods…
I could see the video, I just eat the conventional eggs from the super markets. In summer we get the other kinds, but I am not sure I find too much of a difference. Have a good day Chris, and a very happy new year.
happy new year Chris!
happy new year!!!
Happy New Year!
@Dezinerdreams – Sorry you couldn’t watch it. Here’s the direct link if the embedded version isn’t working for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_POdaRV3Rg.
@kenpcho – @yang1815 – @jasonbasin – @CiaoBella810 – @ZSA_MD – And a happy new year to you, too.
Happy New Year.
@Wangium – Jason, I haven’t been out to their farm yet, but based on the information I’ve seen, there’s a big difference between what this small family-owned and operated farm does and what the industrial “factory farms” do.
One example, the Gasper family farm has only a few hundred chickens at any time whereas a CAFO (“Confined Animal Feeding Operation”, the US gov’t term for a factory farm) will have tens of thousands of chickens.
Just based on the amount of waste produced alone, the Gasper family farm is able to incorporate the waste back into the soil as fertilizer. At a CAFO, the volume of waste is so high (plus, nothing else is being grown or raised – certainly not pasture grass) that it has to be handled just like a toxic substance, which it is.
If I’m back in KC during warmer weather, I hope to take a trip out to the farm so I can write a story about it based on first-hand experience. In the meantime, I encourage you to read Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” so you can compare the different types of agriculture and draw your own conclusions.
Cheers!
happy new year!
@zacksamurai – Happy new year to you, too, Nicky. Any plans of coming back for a visit in 2552?
The thing with sustainable food is it changes with the seasons. I like to see darker yokes than that, but in the winter the chickens just don’t get the grass and bugs they normally would.The industrial outfits just fake it by feeding things which artificially color the yoke.
@Pete Gasper – Cool, a response from Mr. Gasper himself. Yes, I’m quite curious to see how the eggs change with the seasons. Sadly, I’m here in Thailand now and won’t be back to KC until this summer at the earliest. But I’ll look forward to getting another dozen eggs then and, meanwhile, will follow the news from the farm via the newsletter.
Thanks for commenting.
That was really interesting to watch! If it’s raised in America and I am not getting it from China or Mexico………I defintely would pay the extra money for sustainable, locally rasied eggs!