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| Reader objects to story on ‘cage-free myths’ |
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I am writing in reference to your article Egg producer battles cage-free myths (June 10, Farm World). I will give this producer credit when he “freed” some of his chickens. He might need to rethink the word free. His hens were still confined.
I don’t think it matters whether it’s a cage or room, confined is confined. I understand that his goal is to support his family and make a profit. Society has put demands on businessmen like Mr. Rust to do it better and do it faster. He might have a point if he is comparing cage vs. cage free. But I feel he would lose hands down if he were to compare cage vs. range free.
The quality, and nutritional values of range free eggs are untouchable. Range free birds get to do what chickens are supposed to do.
Scratch around in stuff a lot of people really don’t want to know about, eat bugs, and again stuff, that most people don’t want to know about, but the quality of eggs that is awarded to us from range free birds is better for us than the creamy-yellowed yoke eggs that the caged-birds produce.
I can’t believe this man who is responsible for 21 million chickens, thinks that “birds don’t need a place to perch unless they feel threatened, and they don’t need to dust bathe in a cage because there are no mites and parasites to worry of.”
I can’t go on. I know I am wasting my time, for I am sure Mr. Rust, who thinks there is only two ways to raise chickens, cage or floor, is living high on the hog ... or I should say, high on a chicken, and will continue to do so. Just because his family has been in the egg business for three generations, and he has been doing this his whole life, doesn’t mean he has been doing it right. |
| 6/17/2009 |
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