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Check out how chickens are treated while they're alive and get back to me about cruelty. Hint: they don't run around in happy green fields.

• Ralfp 10y ago
  > Hint: they don't run around in happy green fields. Some of them do. I actually check the code on eggs before buying to make sure I'm getting those from free-roaming chickens.
  • mcguire 10y ago
    The code on eggs?
    • majewsky 10y ago
      Every egg needs to be marked in the EU, to indicate the method of production (organic vs. free-range vs. cage) and country of origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_marking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_marking
      • mcguire 10y ago
        Thanks!
  • colanderman 10y ago
    No, they do not, even if they're so-called "free range". I don't know about the EU, but in the US that term is marketing bullshit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range#Free-range_poultry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range#Free-range_poultr...
    • Ralfp 10y ago
      EU regulates what conditions "free range" has to meet to be called like that. I am sorry that it's different in US.
• srj 10y ago
  Some do run around in happy green fields. That's what the step rating on the meat packaging at Whole Foods can tell you.
  • colanderman 10y ago
    No, even so-called "free range" chickens do not. It's a bullshit marketing term in the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range#Free-range_poultry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range#Free-range_poultr... Not to mention that farmed chickens are bred to be so fat they can barely walk anyway: https://www.wired.com/2008/02/chickens-cant-w/ https://www.wired.com/2008/02/chickens-cant-w/