Incredible Edible Egg


	Incredible Edible Egg

bignosemousie

4-4-2007 10:33 AM

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eggs, food, poultry, organic, free range

bignosemousie says:

Find out what all those words on the egg carton really mean. More terms defined at the source. I had no idea that free-range and free-roaming weren't defined.

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4-4-2007 3:02 PM

bignosemousie

Its getting to the point where if we don't know where or how our food is made, we all chance being very ill. The standards aren't working anymore.

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