‘Free Range’ Is A Marketing Term That Means Nothing
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“The 100 birds who were now gazing at the open sky for the first time in their lives, were industry trash, “spent” hens rescued from a “free-range” egg facility where they had endured a lifetime of physical, social and psychological deprivation, females whose depleted bodies were no longer able to churn out eggs at the unnaturally high rate of production they had been forced to sustain all of their young lives, and were being sent to slaughter to be replaced with a new generation of victims whose bodies would be used up in a fraction of their life span and then mass killed, erased from existence, scrubbed from awareness, not a trace of their earthly existence left over, not a feather, not a song, not a child, not a dream.”
FYI, more info about the truth behind misleading terms like “certified humane” “cage-free” “free-range” “grass fed” “humane” can be found at the Humane Myth: http://www.humanemyth.org/