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Originally Posted by jimbo2012
I didn't type that 
I think if folks saw the way the animals were fed, housed then slaughtered and processed many people wouldn't eat meat.
Do some reading on what constitutes free range, it's a big joke.
“Free-range chickens conjure up in some consumers’ minds pictures of contented fowl strolling around the barnyard, but the truth is, all a chicken grower needs to do is give the birds some access to the outdoors whether the chickens decide to take a gambol or stay inside with hundreds or thousands of other birds, under government rules growers are free to label them free-range.
“As all free-range animals are still viewed as objects to be killed for food, they are subject to abusive handling, transport, and slaughter [see, for example, this footage of slaughter]. Free-range animals, like all animals used for their milk and eggs, are still slaughtered at a fraction of their normal life expectancy.”
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The free-range label applies only to birds raised for meat, not eggs. There is a cage-free label for eggs; but it is not regulated by the USDA, nor does it guarantee that the hens were provided access to the outdoors. Neither label requires third-party certification. Even for USDA Organic, the most extensively regulated label, minimum levels of outdoor access have not been set and specific rules do not apply to stocking density or flock size
“Steve Mahrt, self-proclaimed ‘head chicken farmer’ and owner of Petaluma Farms, has been selling fertile, cage-free and organic eggs to West Coast consumers for 20 years.… ‘We’re the original, free-ranging chicken people,’ says Mahrt, a former California Egg Commission chairman.”
his farm
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We've seen much beloved chickens for meat and laying hens, for eggs, when we attended a joint birthday party for our young grandson and his best buddy at the friend's home . The chicken coops were on the back acreage near a babbling brook.........beautiful forest out back.......all of the chickens were "friendly" and allowed the various assorted aged children to "hold them"........we have pics of our 5 year old grandaughter (age at the time) holding each beautifully colored chicken..........
The chickens were allowed to roam free when the family was outside with them. Obviously, there are critters up here that could attack them, thus the complex chicken housing..........
The dad (host of the party) and his wife showed us their freezers in the house which were filled with their organic chicken meat........they also had the "laying hens" like our kids have, ditto for our friends' kids.....it's all the rage up here and elsewhere...........to raise chickens....for eggs, and sometimes for the meat.........I guess the "hobby" evolves.
They don't sell it. They use it for themselves.
Oh, and our few year older grand daughter now has chickens of her own.......for eggs. She LOVES THEM. She even brings her favorites into the house.
I know, I wouldn't do it either..........but they do it.
Our littlest grandbabies also love their chickens (again being raised for eggs).........I guess they all feel they know what goes into the chickens and what comes out is a pure egg.....NOT from a poultry farm, mass produced. We were at our son's wedding in Colorado three years ago when the news was all over about the IOWA chicken scandal..............you should have heard all the people eating at the resort restaurant.
EVERYONE was afraid to eat the eggs from that Iowa farm..........
No one eats healthier than our adult son and his wife, or our daughter and her husband............yet they all eat their eggs. All are slender and healthy.
Eggs used to be considered the perfect food. Egg and bananas, another perfect food which God put on the earth.
Eggs are so very versatile.......