Egg recall drives worried customers to farmers markets

[Joanne98]

Jackie Dearing of Bloomington, Ill., sold all of her 50 dozen eggs at the local farmers market on Saturday, including carton after carton to new customers worried about a large and growing salmonella scare linked to millions of grocery store eggs.

“Almost everybody who came to our booth mentioned it,” said Dearing, whose family runs Dearing Country Farms, a small-scale meat and poultry business. “Anytime something like this happens, people think a lot more about where their food comes from.”

As a recall of more than 550 million eggs tied to two industrial manufacturers widens , small egg farmers across the United States are echoing Dearing’s experience. Sales of eggs at farmers markets, co-operatives and roadside stands reportedly spiked over the weekend as news of the outbreak linked to at least 1,300 illnesses reached shoppers.

“I think this is the consumer’s way of saying, ‘Until this blows over, I’ll get my eggs from another source,’” said Susan S. Joy, general manager of the Nebraska Poultry Industries, an agency based in Lincoln, Neb., that represents all branches of the turkey and egg industry including both small growers and large farms.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38819740/ns/health-food_safety/

They taste better too.

[Kookaburra]

1. I always buy local eggs, produce, etc

It costs a little more, but most of the time the quality is far better, and I know where to go if something is wrong with it.

[madrchsod]

2. i buy "phil`s eggs"

local family owned business..grain fed,free range,and never caged. cost is about a dollar more a dozen. i`ve driven by the farm many times and yes the chickens are out running around.

[elocs]

4. Nice to hear. I buy Phil's eggs as well.

I pay maybe $2.50 a dozen, but I don't eat that many eggs. I'm willing to pay more to know that the hens that laid the eggs at least had some kind of quality of life.

[montanacowboy]

3. If everyone bought locally

it would put these torture chambers out of business