On Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:04:46 AM UTC-6, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:25:52 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> > wrote:
>
> >For some reason, I bought cage free eggs (feeling sorry for caged,
> >crammed hens, maybe). I scrambled one , and then a regular cheapo egg
> >in another pan. Same timing, same heat level.
> >I could not tell a difference in taste. They may be nutritionally
> >superior, but other than that.........
> >
> >Do you buy cage free? Why?
>
> Chicken physiology does not permit nutritional change to occur in eggs
> regardless of free range or caged, nor flavor, only yolk color changes
> with feed... Mother Nature saw to that eons ago for maintaining
> reproduction. Chicken eggs do vary however with the age of the
> chicken, as do mammal eggs. Free range chicken is purely a marketing
> device, hype for extracting more dollars from those with fewer brain
> cells. If anything caged chickens are much more likely to be disease
> free as will their eggs. And naturally folks who spend double for
> eggs will swear they taste better... same as the ignorant peons said
> about The Emperor's New Clothes

Nutritional value may not change but taste is influenced by the food consumed
by chickens. Feed a mixture of fish scraps or stinkweed and the taste of the
eggs may be quite disagreeable.