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1. How can I tell if my eggs have spoiled?
2. Are there hormones in my eggs?
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4. Is genetic engineering used to produce eggs?
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Is genetic engineering used to produce eggs?

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Only traditional selective breeding is used in the egg-laying industry. Based on their positive characteristics, specific cocks and hens are chosen as parents for breeding egg layers, a practice which doesn’t involve genetic engineering. If a hen were to be fed genetically engineered feed, any genetic engineering products would be destroyed by the hen’s digestive processes. Research has confirmed that no genetically engineered materials would be passed into the hen’s eggs.
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