RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Organic eggs are no healthier than factory-farmed eggs and are thus not worth the extra costs, concludes an article running in this week's issue of Time magazine. But the article's author is missing some major benefits of organic eggs—such as the fact that they're higher in omega-3 fatty acids, are free of antibiotic residues, and contain no arsenic, which is added to factory-farmed chicken-feed to prevent infections and spur growth.
The article was based on a new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) study finding that different production methods—factory-farmed, cage-free, and free-roaming—all met the same quality standards. Yet, the author's conclusions that organic eggs are no healthier than conventional, and that the way they're raised is dangerous and not worth the added cost, run far afield of the research, misinterpreting the study's primary finding.
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