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> If that bothers you, there are always more expensive ways to eat real meat I’ve been buying free-range chicken and eggs for a while, but recent reports have
by dimal 3y ago
> If that bothers you, there are always more expensive ways to eat real meat
I’ve been buying free-range chicken and eggs for a while, but recent reports have said that there is basically no actual free-range chicken or eggs on the market. There’s no oversight, so almost everything labeled as free-range isn’t really free-range, so it’s just more expensive, with no benefit.
- EatingWithForks 3y agoI actually doubt this, but you have to be very particular. You can't just go to the grocery store and pick up a free-range label. But e.g. my local farmer's market has a guy who is definitely pasture-raised chickens with the $$$ to match.
- slimsag 3y agoIn north america, what you want to look for is 'Certified Humane'. They actually have inspections of facilities and generally enforce better baseline standards for animals, like minimum spacing. Not perfect, but probably the best you'll get in a grocery store. Everything else is just marketing terms, and effectively unregulated: 'cage free': a bunch of chickens packed into a large room, effectively a cage. Just not individual/tiny cages. 'free range': they have access to an outdoor area in theory, but it might be a tiny cage, no guarantee the chicken was ever able to use it. 'pasture raised': animals generally spend more time outdoors than indoors, but no guarantee.