How Do Your Eggs Score?

After the egg recalls this past summer, the Ecology Center has been tracking progress and information about egg safety. You already know that you can decrease the risk of consuming salmonella-contaminated eggs by buying from small-scale organic farmers (read our blog post on Egg Safety and the Berkeley Farmers’ Market), but what to do when there are so many brands to choose from at the grocery store? Which are ethical family farmers, and which are factory farms?

Luckily, the Cornucopia Institute has done the research for us. They have published an organic egg scorecard that rates name-brand and private-label organic eggs by 22 criteria, to ensure consumer safety. Click here for their Organic Egg Brand Scorecard, and read their full report on Separating Factory Farm Egg Production from Authentic Organic Agriculture. [Photo by cobalt123]