How do your eggs rate?

Last year I was great about buying eggs from a local farm. They were expensive, but I knew that I was getting eggs from a smaller, local farm that treats the chickens well. They truly are free-range. 

Then, the eggs started to taste... fishy. Not 'fishy' as in suspicious. Literally, like fish. I gagged trying to eat them. I tried another dozen from the same place a couple weeks later and got the same fishy taste. I read that it's sometimes too much flax in a chicken's diet or certain things they may be eating if they're free-range. I just couldn't eat them. 

So, I started buying eggs at my regular supermarket that were labeled free-range and organic. I had also seen the same brand in our smaller, organic market and figured they had done their research on the brand. At $5.48 per dozen, I was hoping they were above factory farms. 

Unfortunately, the two brands I have been buying did not score well on the Organic Egg Scorecard from The Cornucopia Institute. Both only received a one out of five rating! That's horrible! 

Click HERE to see if your organic eggs are on the list. If you don't see your brand listed, check the back of the egg carton to see the name of the farm that supplies the eggs for the brand. 

This is a wake-up call for me, not only for eggs, but for how important it is to know where everything I consume originates. I'm back to local eggs (no longer fishy tasting) and hopefully will have chickens of my own this spring!