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Funnies & Foodies January 2026
By Jan Walsh
Giggle: Jail Birds
That Guy frees the caged chickens so they can be pasture raised. Problem is with so many chicken houses, there is no pasture. Soon nearby farms will have more yard birds they can handle.
Gab: CleanCooking.com launched January 1, 2026!
My New Year’s Resolution? Shop Clean. Cook Clean. Eat Clean.
I have been writing about organic living for 15 years. Inspired by my readers, subscribers, and followers’ interest in and need for information on clean eating, I am launching Clean Cooking, to help you purge your pantry and cook clean for the new year. It is a free resource for both visitors and subscribers. Here they can follow its research, tap into its resources, and replicate Clean Recipes. Learn what products to toss and which ones to purchase, how to cook without GMOs, seed oils, and other artificial ingredients, while experiencing the joy of eating healthy every day. Also, the site will soon have an online store making it easier to shop clean. Sign up on the homepage for Clean Cooking’s monthly newsletter, Clean Feast!
Goods: Farm Eggs
Which eggs do you buy? With so many descriptors on the labels, you might be fooled into thinking you are buying clean, Non-GMO eggs when you purchase eggs with the following labels: all natural, farm fresh, no hormones, vegetarian diet, omega-3, cage-free, and free-range.
I only buy my eggs from local farmers, whom I know have pastured raised their hens and not fed them GMO feed. In spring and summer months it is easy to find these eggs at local farmers markets. Yet in winter the hens stop laying. These local farm eggs are also far more nutritious than commercially raised eggs. However, the majority of eggs in the U.S. come from chickens raised with other chickens in battery cages. Inside these cages housed with other chickens, each chicken has no more space than its body fills. The cages are stacked in long rows in warehouse-sized barns. With no access allowed outside their cages or to the outdoors for sunlight and air, these birds are so cramped that they cannot even spread their wings. And most often these chickens are fed a mixture of GMO corn and feed made from animal by products.
You are what your egg’s chicken eats. They should be eating protein. Thus “vegetarian diet” should make you avoid the eggs rather than purchase them because chickens are not vegetarian. They are omnivores that would naturally get most of their protein from worms, grasshoppers, and other insects if they were raised in the wild. Hens fed a vegetarian diet are likely eating GMO corn fortified with amino acids. And the Omega-3 label most often means the hens’ corn feed is supplemented with some flaxseed.
Get my Farm Egg Recipes for Organic Bacon Quiche and Organic French Toast at Clean Cooking’s Clean Recipes.