"Free range" is a marketing scam. They're still indoors, in a tight space, just not literally packed into grated cages.
They only way to get a legit, free range chicken, is to go to a local farmer where you see the chickens free ranging. Economics of 300,000,000 people don't allow for that on such a large scale. They process up to a 2,000,000 chickens per week in that complex.
"Free range" is a marketing scam. They're still indoors, in a tight space, just not literally packed into grated cages.
They only way to get a legit, free range chicken, is to go to a local farmer where you see the chickens free ranging. Economics of 300,000,000 people don't allow for that on such a large scale. They process up to a 2,000,000 chickens per week in that complex.
That's besides the point. Almost all "free range" chickens we buy, at least here in U.S., is marketing bullshit. It's just not feasible to allocate so many resources and time to have chickens freely running outside in the grass, picking bugs and worms in the sun... I can't even imagine that in countries with very limited real estate. The cost would be madness.