Fake organic eggs – How the industry tricks us | SWR concerns
Many consumers rely on their eggs to be organic or at least free-range. The concerned authors ask: Can consumers really trust what is written on the eggs? And in many cases we come to the conclusion: the eggs lie.
It starts in the supermarket: the boxes say one country of manufacture, the eggs say another. Supposedly normal, but our reporters' confidence in the balls is taking a hit.
So we go to the laying farms and see how the eggs are produced. Above all, we discover neglected chickens, penned in and forced to lay their eggs in miserable conditions. And that too, where free-range eggs and even organic eggs are actually supposed to be produced.
The KAT seal is primarily used to ensure compliance with standards in the production of eggs. But our research shows that the controls are easy to circumvent and that many eggs come from animal cruelty despite the seal. Foodwatch explains to us the gaps in the system and why eggs need a new system. The size of the farm, mass farming and price pressure always ensure that our eggs are produced far away from any standards that are actually self-evident.
