Given the current move to vilify the food industry and growing concerns about food safety, we here at Fat City are glad that, when we need the truth, we can count on the BarfBlog.
Kansas State University professor Doug Powell and other BarfBloggers from the world of food safety and public health break down news stories and new findings in an effort to determine how to keep us safe from the food we eat. Their (sometimes gross) revelations are usually designed to debunk the latest fads in favor of facts.
This week provided a great example of the kind of questions we all should be asking. In discussing salmonella in eggs, the BarfBlog considers whether free-range chicken eggs would
be less prone to salmonella than those of chickens from an
industrial farm.
Author
Casey Jacob looks at studies from the past five years, and comes to the conclusion that despite what we might want
to believe, there isn't any evidence that free-range eggs are more likely to be free of salmonella.
Sorry, all you suburbanites who have been in the raising chickens in your yards.
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And what connections do these folks have to the factory farms? Are they consultants, paid representatives? Did anyone bother to ask?
State university ag professors are usually stuck on the teat of some big AgriBusiness to obtain research money or speaking engagements.
Move along, nothing to see here...
The article doesn't seem to really conclude anything other than not enough comparison testing has been performed for there to be many useful results either way. Besides, salmonella risk is only one of a myriad of reasons to choose free range eggs.
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