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Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?

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310 points greenie_beans | 2 comments | 19 Feb 25 21:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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forty ◴[20 Feb 25 09:59 UTC] No.43112945[source]▶
Sadly, because the soil are too polluted by PFAS, it is adviced against to eat your own eggs (by medical authorities) where I live (larger paris aera)

https://www.iledefrance.ars.sante.fr/polluants-organiques-pe...

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1. cryptonym ◴[20 Feb 25 15:26 UTC] No.43115812[source]▶
This adds costly pollution tests to the equation, if you want to eat eggs safely. Backyard chickens doesn't sound like a great solution.
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2. forty ◴[20 Feb 25 15:32 UTC] No.43115902[source]▶
I think in practice in their randomized tests, almost all samples were above the recommended threshold, so you can save the test money and assume it's not going to be good.