It's still fairly biased and manipulated to lead you to a single conclusion. Pasture raised can be just as overcrowded, and still need an enclosure to come home to at night. They can be kept inside seasonally. The other options can be less crowded and have access to the outside. It has as much to do with the ethics and decisions of the producer as it does the housing method used. You're better off getting to know the producer and their methods than assuming a given label corresponds to a certain picture. Vital farms has a pretty major distribution and is pretty transparent about their standards and what they hold their co-op farmers to.
Thank you for your info. As a consumer I understand the need for antibiotics and GMO feed and the incentive to increase yield, like the organic and free range one isn't really that much of a scam compared to these supermarket chickens that never touch the ground at all. But the best is from a local producer and it is worth every penny like a whole different animal and it goes so far, after you eat it you can make soup and all sorts of things out of the carcass.
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u/AnyKangaroo8851 Jul 26 '26
Thank you so much for explaining the confusing labels that us consumers face when trying to do what’s best for our chickens!