The 'Free Range' Myth and Evil KFC

Free Range is applied to meat, eggs, dairy and sometimes fish, but it does not mean what you think it does. By choosing to buy 'Free Range' eggs or meat you think your getting it from plump chickens from a nice farm, where they can roam as they please. But, to be considered free range, chickens must have "access to the outdoors" which, taken literally, means nothing. You can have a shed containing 30,000 chickens with a small door at one end that opens to a 5-by-5 dirt patch, and the door is only open occasionally.... This is considered free range.

Very often, the eggs of free range chickens, chickens packed against one another in barns, can still be de-beaked, drugged and cruelly slaughtered once "spent". This photo shows male chicks that are uselss for laying eggs or their meat and are simply discarded alive to slowly starve to death.

KFC is arguably the company that has increased the total amount of suffering in the world, buying nearly a billion chickens a year. KFC insists that they are "committed to the well-being and humane treatment of chickens" but it has been documented that a slaughterhouse in West Virginia that supplies KFC have been tearing the heads off live birds, spitting tobacco into their eyes, spray-painting their faces, and violently stomping on them.

And this slaughterhouse was "Supplier of the Year". And vice-president of this slaughterhouse is now a board member of KFC.

Moral of this story: 1) don't always believe what you read on products and do independent research on companies which say they are 'free range'

2) don't eat at KFC