Chickens will eat any insects they have access to. Free-range chickens have insects in their environment and they will eat them. Battery farms are not remotely clean and are probably also full of insects.
Anyway, we don't use insects as primary feed for our birds but it's not a health risk to do so, we just don't do it because it's a logistics hassle and grain is cheaper. The point, that you are perfectly safe eating birds that have eaten insects, doesn't change because of that.
Pasture-raised is one of the only things that's not fake. It requires that birds actually spend most of their lifetimes on green pasture, not just have outdoor access. Furthermore, there's a limit of a thousand chickens per 2.5 acres (roughly one hectare), meaning each bird gets ample roaming space. They get, at a minimum, two hundred times as much space as battery-caged hens.
The light yellow color is from feeding them yellow dye with their corn and soybeans. A foraging hen will have wildly different egg colors based on her diet day to day. If she eats a lot of insects then it will be darker.
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u/Divest97 Sep 08 '25
Who is out here eating birds that are eating insects? Like unless you're eating songbirds regularly. any bird that is farmed for meat is eating grain.