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What’s in a Name? Food Labels, Explained

Modern Farmer

Do you know what “cage-free” means? How about “free range”? Pasture-raised”? Photography by Lena Beck) Free Range: This means that the animal spends part of its time outside, uncaged. Farms must provide proof to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service of free-range conditions.

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Do chickens deserve better?

Sustainable Food Trust

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days.

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