>>Hi Grace, >>If you do raw eggs get the free range organic ones as fresh as you can. then >>there is litle chnace of getting salmonella from them.
Just to add to this .... "free range" legally only means that the chickens had some sort of access to the outdoors. So there are large chicken farms that have 100's of chickens crammed into a building, with one small door leading to a 10' x 10' pen of dirt, that can label their eggs as "free range". What you really want are "pastured eggs", where the chickens are kept out on pasture. Since there's no legal definition for the term, though, the best thing is to talk to the farmer and find out how he/she raises their animals. A good website for finding local pastured eggs and meat is http://www.eatwild.com. Feel free to email me offlist for more information - I've written up a guide to the terms farmers use, as well as a list of questions to ask when you're looking for really good-quality meats and eggs. Judith [email protected]
