Free-range eggs

A little background here before Amber comes on.

Many people can't imagine not eating eggs, me included, and many kind-hearted shoppers reach for and pay extra for those cage-free eggs, right? Thinking, well, you're buying humane alternatives to other egg production systems.

But those labels mean far less for the birds than they suggest.

And all eggs are not only cholesterol bombs, but are problematic for the birds who lay them on egg factories.