Kroger Supermarket is now selling "carbon neutral" eggs $6.00/dozen

In the race to market a more perfect egg, Kroger just rolled into the lead. The Cincinnati-based supermarket chain is now selling what it calls America's first carbon neutral eggs. By now, you're probably familiar with cage-free eggs, free-range eggs, and pasture-raised eggs. These new carbon-neutral eggs are a step beyond even those varieties, in terms of animal welfare, sustainability and progressive food policies in general.

To reduce their carbon footprint, the hens eat repurposed bakery by-products instead of traditional corn-based feed and their manure is turned into organic fertilizer, according to Krouse.

While this surely improves the quality of life for the chickens, it's not immediately clear how it impacts the quality of the eggs. For now, the Simple Truth-brand carbon-neutral eggs are only available at select Kroger locations in Ohio and Michigan. The company plans to bring them to more stores in the coming year.

For added transparency, the packaging even includes a QR code linking customers to a live webcam inside the new egg-production facilities. Link to article and YouTube video is below.

Kroger's New Eggs Will Let You Check In on the Hens Who Laid Them (msn.com)

 

For crying out loud…

 

Oh boy. Whats next?

 

Re purposed bakery products vs traditional corn based feed, what the hell did chickens eat 1000 years ago grains or repurposed leftover mutton?

 

How do you know if someone buys food products using all the latest buzzwords like carbon footprint, sustainability, progressive, etc.?

Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

 

Repurosed bakery products are used in raising hogs. So now is pork price going up?

 

And I suppose that "repurposed bakery by-products", were all dealt with in a carbon neutral fashion? Highly unlikely.

 

Grasshoppers, meatworms, ants, termites.... And I don't mean for the chickens.

 

Why not?

 

Before Christmas when I got home. I bought a dozen eggs. Not even fancy eggs. They’re know for being from the local commercial egg farm.
$1.74/ dozen

a week later, those eggs are no longer available. I drive by of their local barns daily and they are definitely shipping eggs out.

the eggs they do have, still before Christmas are now $4.74. Still nothing fancy or organic.


A week later, those same eggs are now $5.75.

 

Hey can you blame the company? Whether or not any of us with a brain believe the "carbon neutral" thing, they are making more money from it. I say kuddos to them.

 

This whole carbon neutral goes right out the window shortly after consumption.
You eat a half dozen deviled eggs and wait an hour; are you still carbon neutral?

 

I won't be shocked to find out they got a government grant and subsidies for this project.
I won't be shocked to find out 5 years from now it was a sham.
I won't be shocked that a certain faction of the media keeps running stories about "carbon neutral" products.

 

Doubtful, since I & hundreds of others have/still do haul them hundreds of miles in hopper trailers pulled by a diesel powered trucks getting 5mpg -6mpg.

 

Yup. It's all how "they" decide the parameters around their claims.

Kroger and eggs are just an example of the wordsmith game that applies to lots of things in life.

 

Do the eggs get from the hen to the store in a carbon neutral way?

 

... and sold in stores that are likely not 'carbon neutral'. Brought home in cars that are not carbon neutral and cooked on stoves that are not carbon neutral.

 

Bird flu is largely to blame for rising egg prices

Those price dynamics are primarily due to the deadliest outbreak of bird flu in U.S. history, which has killed millions of egg-laying hens this year, according to economists.

Average egg prices jumped 49.1% in November compared with those a year earlier — the largest annual percentage increase among all grocery items in that period, according to the consumer price index, a barometer of inflation. By comparison, the overarching “food at home” category was up 12%.