Eggs in Jamaica

[jon c.]

the eggs in JA taste really great. much better than most that I get in the US. I always wondered how much of that comes from not refrigerating them and how much is a function of a more natural diet.

[Eco]

Diet and freshness. Try an egg from a chicken that walks around eating bugs all day and one from a factory....man-ol-man those free range chickens lay a yummy egg.

[Kritter]

There's nothing like fresh, free-range eggs... yum. But unless you know your source, you cannot assume that the eggs you're buying are free-range. Jamaica has a billion dollar egg industry, and most of the eggs purchased in the supermarkets are from large farms (some w/ as many of 60,000 caged hens), and they're fed a standard commercially-produced pellet feed. It is not much different than here in the U.S.