Hey!!!!!! >:(?!
Hey!!!!!! >:(?
I was on PETAs Web Site and they are saying that all "free range" and "natural" Places are lying and that the conditions are just as bad but we run a small free range Chicken farm and our chickens really are!! They are free to roam on all these like 2 acres and every day I go out and collect eggs. They can go in and out of their coop any time they want and lay whenever the heck they want. Alot of farmers I know really are humane and Free Range!!! What the heck?
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I've even named the magority of them!!! Like (don't laugh) our rooster Mr. Speckles!!!! He's speckled with alot of dif colors.
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1 week ago
I've even named the magority of them!!! Like (don't laugh) our rooster Mr. Speckles!!!! He's speckled with alot of dif colors.
Which is one of the reasons why people don't take PETA seriously anymore. Try writing to them and see what kind of response you get(I don't know what it would be, but I would be curious if I was in your shoes:P)
PETA is very self promoting, they believe everything they do is right and that's how everyone should live. I'm a VEGETARIAN who DOES NOT support PETA!
you run a SMALL free range chicken farm. Most of the free range products people get are not from such a place. We would like to believe in the happy little farm picture whenever a person consumes meat, but it just isnt true. Ya, there are small farms which dont run this way, they also dont mass produce the products and stock every grocery store chain the country.
I don't really care for PETA either - they're a little too extreme.
But the "Free Range" thing I actually heard about before - not from PETA.
The whole "free range" and "natural" designation leaves a lot of room for interpretation. From what I understand some farms merely allow their animals free range for an hour or two a day and they can use - "free range" on their packaging. Similarly, "natural" may only mean some part of their diet is natural.
It's a subjective system and it doesn't sound like it is well regulated or inspected.
Buy local!
They are talking about most of them. Peta hasn't checked every free-range egg cooperation in the world.
Free range is a method of farming husbandry where the animals are permitted to roam freely instead of being contained in any manner. The principle is to allow the animals as much freedom as possible, to live out their instinctual behaviours in a reasonably natural way, regardless of whether or not they are eventually killed for meat. One of the many benefits of free range animals is for some rudimentary insect population control in the free range area.
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Here's your clue:
Traditional American usage equates "free-range" with "unfenced," and with the implication that there was no herdsman keeping them together or managing them in any way. Legally, a free-range jurisdiction allowed livestock (perhaps only of a few named species) to run free, and the owner was not liable for any damage they caused. In such jurisdictions, people who wished to avoid damage by livestock had to fence them out; in others, the owners had to fence them in.[2].
In recent years, with the days of free-range cattle mostly behind us, neither the presence of a "legal fence" surrounding the farm nor the pros and cons of old-time free-range ranching are the main points of interest. Instead, the term "free range" is used colloquially to mean something on the order of, "low stocking density," "pasture-raised," "grass-fed," "old-fashioned," "humanely raised," etc.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires that chickens raised for their meat have access to the outdoors in order to receive the free-range certification. Free-range chicken eggs, however, have no legal definition in the United States. Likewise, free-range egg producers have no common standard on what the term means. Many egg farmers sell their eggs as free range merely because their cages are 2 or 3 inches above average size, or there is a window in the shed.[citation needed]
The USDA has no specific definition for "free-range" beef, pork, and other non-poultry products. All USDA definitions of "free-range" refer specifically to poultry. No other criteria-such as the size of the range or the amount of space given to each animal-are required before beef, lamb, and pork can be called "free-range". Claims and labeling using "free range" are therefore unregulated. The USDA relies "upon producer testimonials to support the accuracy of these claims."
I think they are referring to most of the "free range" food in the big chain stores. People like things cheap and some big companies are taking advantage of the free range label to make a buck.