WARNING: Watch This Video Before Eating Another Egg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about conventional eggs vs. pasture-raised, organic eggs. There is a huge difference between the typical eggs at your grocery store and pasture-raised eggs.

Conventional eggs aren’t highly regulated. Even the expiration date isn’t regulated, so they may sit on the shelf for months before you get them.

However, one of the biggest issues we want to look at is what the chickens producing these eggs are fed. Chickens are meant to consume insects and worms. Instead, they’re fed GMO corn and soy.

What’s really shocking is that there is another ingredient in common chicken feeds called animal byproducts or animal protein products.

These animal protein products can include:

• Feathers

• Organs

• Blood

• Skin

• Manure

Even the vegetarian feeds are corn and soy—and it’s unnatural for chickens to consume grains alone.

Many people think that the color of a yolk will tell you the health of an egg. However, synthetic dyes are sometimes used in chicken feeds to give the yolk a certain color.

If a chicken eats what it should, the egg yolks will have a naturally vibrant golden color. In nature, it’s the antioxidants that give eggs this natural color. Eggs that have less of this natural color have fewer antioxidants.

Conventional eggs are produced by chickens in cages that never see the light of day. These chickens are very crowded and stressed.

Cage-free eggs are from chickens that are cage-free, but they’re still crowded in an enclosed space. Antibiotics can also be used on conventional and cage-free chickens.

Free-range chickens have slightly more space than cage-free chickens, and they have limited outdoor access. However, pasture-raised chickens have far more space and the ability to forage for food.

Pasture-raised eggs have higher amounts of fat-soluble vitamins and other essential nutrients. Organic, pasture-raised eggs are antibiotic-free, hormone-free, arsenic-free, and free of pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides.

Not only that but organic, pasture-raised eggs are produced by chickens that aren’t fed poultry slaughter byproducts.

You may have noticed omega-3-enriched eggs on the market. You don’t know the source of omega-3 fatty acids that are being used, and I think you’d be better off going with organic, pasture-raised eggs. Or, try raising your own chickens if possible!

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0:00.0	I highly suggest that you watch this video before you eat another egg. There is a huge difference
0:06.3	between the conventional eggs that you get at the grocery store versus something that is called
0:11.5	pastored, raised, organic eggs. There's a huge difference. And that's what I'm going to get in
0:16.8	today. Unfortunately, even the expiration date is not regulated. So in other words,
0:23.1	companies can just omit that little date on the box. And it's not unlikely that these eggs
0:30.4	consider the shelf for 60 days. That's two months before you end up buying them. But one of the things
0:37.0	that really shocked me when I did a deep dive in this topic is the feeds that they feed the chickens,
0:44.1	the animal feeds. Okay, what are in these animal feeds? Yes, they have GMO corn in soy. And that's
0:50.6	very unnatural because these chickens were meant to consume bugs, insects, worms, flowers, seeds,
0:58.0	things like that. But I found out that there's another ingredient called animal byproducts or
1:06.0	another name for that would be animal protein products. That would include the carcass of another
1:13.2	animal, feathers, organs, blood, skin, even of the same species, and manure. And at first,
1:22.5	I'm like, wait a second, that can't be true. But as I dug further into this topic, it's true.
1:28.4	These animals are fed shit. Now, of course, you also get an option on the label sometimes,
1:34.0	they're fed vegetarian feeds, right? Well, I want to bring up a point about vegetarian feeds,
1:39.2	and that would be corn in soy, no animal products, okay? But I also want to point out that it's
1:43.9	very unnatural for a chicken just to consume grains without bugs, worms, things like that,
1:50.7	which, by the way, are not vegan. And chickens that are actually arm-niverse, so that leads me to
1:56.0	the next topic about eggs relating to the color of the egg yolk. Some people have this idea that
2:03.2	if you look at the color of the egg, it'll tell you the health of that egg, right? Makes total sense
2:09.2	until you find out that they actually sell and use on a regular basis colored pigments.
2:14.9	Synthetic dyes to make the yolk look a certain color. Because if you don't do that, the consumer
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