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Blog #5

In this week’s blog I will be writing about United egg producers certified. This topic is about how they treat and take care of the hens that produce the eggs that we eat. This is a very important topic to me because I eat a lot of eggs. When I am back home, I usually eat five or six eggs after working out because they have a ton of protein in them. The united egg producers have two ways of taking care of the hens, and that is when they are caged and when they are not caged. The united egg producers said this about how they care about the chickens, “Egg farmers sincerely care about the welfare of their chickens and completely understand that poor husbandry practices will result in higher mortality and fewer eggs” (https://uepcertified.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Caged-UEP-Guidelines_17.pdf). That is important because that really proves that they care about the chickens and eggs because if the chickens are healthy they will produce more eggs and those eggs will be better quality. In order to sell eggs as part of the united egg producers certified, they make sure that “Any egg farmer desiring to be recognized and market eggs as UEP Certified must implement the scientific guidelines on 100% of their flocks” (https://uepcertified.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Caged-UEP-Guidelines_17.pdf). That is awesome to know that because that is how we know all the hens are healthy and that we will not be getting any diseases from the eggs. I loved researching this topic this week.

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