The USDA has very loose regulation on food safety and you will be quite surprized by these commonly accepted terms below as being completely organic and safe. The key is buy local from a farmers market or farmer if you can. Make sure the chickens are grass fed and roam freely in grass so they are eating all the good stuff in the dirt so they can lay the most nutrient filled eggs. OR get your own chickens and raise them in your backyard. Just two or three is all you need and what great fun for the kids!
"CAGE FREE The agriculture department says this means that the chickens were kept out of cages and had continuous access to food and water, but did not necessarily have access to the outdoors.
FREE RANGE The agriculture department says that in addition to meeting the cage-free standards, free-range birds must have continuous access to the outdoors, unless there's a health risk present. There are no standards, though, for what that outdoor area must be like. (A concrete lot could do.)
PASTURE-RAISED There is no regulation of this term, which implies hens got at least part of their food from foraging on greens and bugs...."
Information taken from Local Food Beats which I highly recommend joining their email list at Sharonb51@hotmail.com
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