Why Don't We Eat Turkey Eggs Everywhere If We Love Chicken Eggs Every Day?
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Why Don't We Eat Turkey Eggs Everywhere If We Love Chicken Eggs Every Day?
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Why don't we eat turkey eggs anywhere if we eat chicken eggs every day?
Turkey eggs are perfectly edible, larger and richer than chicken eggs, yet they are almost never found in supermarkets. The reason isn't taste. The real reason is the economics of producing them.
Turkeys take longer to start laying, eat far more feed, lay fewer eggs, become broody, require more space, and have been selectively bred primarily for meat production. A turkey egg can actually be more valuable as a future turkey than as food.
This video explains why turkey eggs are so rare, why chicken eggs became the world's everyday egg, and why the modern food industry chose chickens instead of turkeys for large-scale egg production.
We compare turkey eggs vs chicken eggs, including egg size, laying frequency, feed consumption, production costs, broodiness, turkey farming, artificial insemination, incubation, hatcheries, disease risks, packaging, transportation, supermarket logistics, and the economics behind the modern egg industry.
So if turkeys are raised by the millions, why don't we see their eggs beside chicken eggs at the grocery store?
The answer is surprisingly simple: the turkey is worth more as meat than as an egg.
Watch until the end to discover why the turkey egg was essentially priced out of breakfast.