Salmonella

On the subject of raw or undercooked eggs, perhaps I'm naive but I don't believe the problem rests with eggs but with how eggs are produced.
Studies have shown that salmonella risk is greatly increased in commercially raised eggs over "free-range" eggs.
Now "cage-free" and other false claims of humanity are showing up on health food store shelves (please don't get me started.) But I do not believe that the problem is with the hens.
It's with us.
12-18% of all battery raised hens die of cancer or other stress related desease within the first 6-8 months, average lifespan in captivity, 1 year.
Natural life span: 12-15 years.

You want to feel safe, feel good, stop objectiving non-human life. Sure we have an increased risk of disease, truth is if you break down the life chain and act without honor, Mother Earth will get you one way or another.
Sounds flaky.,perhaps?
But haven't we done enough lying, to ourselves. You can't bluff your way out of a consumerism that is endangering everything you care about. A different kind of change is in order,
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH COOKING?

Everything.
I keep hens, or should I say, they keep me. We don't slaughter them and they roam freely. Their eggs are wonderful. I cook for my family and do local catering. My grandmother, great aunt and others did the same, for the length of their lives.

No one ever got sick, not once.

Sure, there is scientific data to support this opinion but ulitmately, you still have to look to your own actions.
What goes around, comes around,
and if you give a laying hen, a space the size of a piece of notbook paper to live out her life on. Deprive her of rest, natural light, decentt food, her very claws growing through the cage floor. He beak cut off the day she is born to reduce cannobolism.
They call them "gut lines".
Wonder why?
2.5 billion hens a year, in the U.S.... for you, for all of us. that 12-18% mortality is equal to approximately 160 million birds,
think about it. There is your Salmonella. They don't even take them out of the cages right away when they die.

Are you worried about an upset stomach?

You SHOULD be.

Seek alternative sources.
Support small farms.
Be, what you say, you are.

Humanity.