Article: The case for the not-quite-pristine egg

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Article: The case for the not-quite-pristine egg

baldbabybird:

biodiverseed:

A great article on using vaccines in poultry for salmonella prevention (instead of industrial washing): washing removes the cuticle of the egg, which shortens it’s shelf life and makes it permeable to air and bacteria.

I believe this is how they have almost eliminated salmonella in the Danish egg industry.

RT. eggs with the cuticle don’t actually have to be refrigerated for a while either. We leave ours out for a week or two. Man, I love hens.

Yeah, in Europe we they don’t do this industrial washing ridiculousness. Vaccinate the hens and fix the problem at that end of production :)