Here is a good article by www.marksdailyapple.com on how free range poultry is often not free range, and in particular how cage free is a particularly insulting label to put on poultry farming.
“Americans
spend more than $50 Billion on chicken and turkey annually2 so the
financial incentive for them to cater to this shifting demand is gigantic. A
few independent farms have opted to actually change the way they raise their birds but
improving poultry production practices, especially raising poultry outdoors on
pasture, raises the labor costs of production dramatically. For this reason
many companies have decided to turn to clever marketing techniques to meet the
demand for alternatives instead of actually changing the highly profitable
CAFO-style system in which their birds are raised. Today, poultry production
claims that boast about the superiority of certain brands’ “organic,” “cage
free,” “hormone free,” or “free range” poultry can be seen almost everywhere
from poultry labels in grocery stores to restaurant menus and even online meat
shops’ product descriptions. Tragically, these poultry production claims are
often relatively meaningless. They’re designed to paint a picture of what the
customer wants to buy without requiring significant changes in the old CAFO (confined
animal feeding operations)poultry production model.”
Do you feel manipulated yet?
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