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.