Posted June 25, 2014
A spokesman for The Humane Society of the United States, says studies show rates of salmonella infection, a bacteria that can trigger food-borne illness in humans, decreases when the quality of care given the egg-laying chickens improves. And a chicken living a pasture-raised existence has a better life than its caged cousins. In order for eggs to be labeled pasture-raised, a producer must, among other things, give 108 square feet of outdoor space per bird and rotate fields. Read more.