The Dark Side of Sustainability: Organic Eggs' Climate Impact A recent study published in Royal Society Open Science has revealed that organic eggs have a worse impact on climate change than their caged counterparts.
This finding seems counterintuitive, given the widespread assumption that free range farming is the gold standard of animal welfare and environmental stewardship.
The UK's egg production landscape is dominated by a mix of caged, barn housed, free range non organic, and free range organic systems.