Mike Kennedy
Elite Member
- Joined
- Sep 28, 2003
- Professional Status
- Certified Residential Appraiser
- State
- New York
I can just see myself at the grocery store removing each egg and examining it with a jewelers loop.
That is the biggest crock..."Free Range" means the bird has a pen...maybe as small as 10' x 50', to walk around in..with the 22,500 other birds in a 500' long house....most never leave the broiler house and the chicken has less than one square foot of space on average..and they are usually ganged up around the feeders and drinkers anyway. Even if giving the birds 4 SF or 10 SF...they are all in the same area, eating the same feed, drinking from the same waterers...and it's a wonder broilers don't come with barf bags.
At the supermarket: Look for birds labeled "free range." Close quarters in the henhouse give bad bugs the chance to spread, as do high-volume processing operations. Free-range chickens, which are given more room to roost and are usually slaughtered in smaller numbers, present a potentially safer option
at least maybe you have a place to hang your towel nowheard that raw oysters were an aphrodisiac so I ate a dozen
at least maybe you have a place to hang your towel now