Do not buy Royal Duty Free's "Cage-free Eggs"

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If you are thinking of buying your food stocks this week and are considering doing it at the Royal Duty-Free with eggs on the list, do not buy their per-dozen tray, allegedly labeled "cage-free eggs".

I am not sure what the store is going for when it labeled the eggs as born from "cage-free" chickens, but whatever it is, it does not share the same meaning as ones coming from "free-range" chickens.

Why?

Here are a few nagging reasons:

• In comparison to its white eggs, their "cage-free" eggs are conspicuously smaller in size (you get less the content per egg)
• Comparing the price between a large white egg and their "cage-free" eggs, the latter is more expensive by a notable margin (a few pesos more expensive per egg or P125 per dozen/roughly P11 per egg versus a roughly P8 a piece big, white egg)
• You are not getting the benefit of what an egg that is drawn from a "free-range" chicken really would as their "cage-free" chicken egg's yolk is yellow and not orange in color: this is the most telling sign that their egg is not from a free-range chicken. Case in point, if an egg's yolk is colored orange, then it is packed with nutrients borne from a chicken being able to roam around its habitation and eat what a wild chicken would normally and not be forced fed with something artificial like their caged counterparts.

Bottom line: Royal Duty-Free's "cage-free" chicken egg is a scam. You are literally just paying more for a false label.