Food & Nutrition

Decoding Egg Labels: From Cage-Free to Pasture-Raised

Understanding what egg carton labels really mean can help you make informed choices based on animal welfare, nutrition, and farming practices.
Decoding Egg Labels: From Cage-Free to Pasture-Raised
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Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
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Michael Jimenez is the founder and CEO of JMZ Farms in Texas, where he raises approximately 500 chickens and produces organic, pasture-raised eggs.

“I feed my hens a certified organic feed, and they are pasture raised—meaning that I have them on pasture 24/7,” he told The Epoch Times.

Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
Emma is an acupuncture physician and has written extensively about health for multiple publications over the past decade. She is now a health reporter for The Epoch Times, covering Eastern medicine, nutrition, trauma, and lifestyle medicine.