Free-Range
Photo: East Bay Animal Advocates
“Free-range organic” young turkeys with surgically mutilated beaks at Diestel Turkey Ranch, a supplier to Whole Foods.
"Free-Range" Poultry and Eggs: Not All They're Cracked Up to Be
Photo: Jake Stangel for Bloomberg BusinessweekThe Face of Small Animal Farming
"I've spent the WHOLE day processing these f***ers. First I hung them in the bathroom, cut off their heads, and bled them (they were freshly killed)." ~Novella Carpenter, Ghost Town Farm Blog
NoSlaughter.org - What Oakland's Slaughter Hobbyists are Saying
"I've spent the WHOLE day processing these f***ers. First I hung them in the bathroom, cut off their heads, and bled them (they were freshly killed)." ~Novella Carpenter, Ghost Town Farm Blog
- What's Wrong with ‘Humanely Raised’ Poultry and Eggs? 5 July 2023
- Letter to the editor: ‘Cage-free’ eggs are not humane for hens 4 March 2023
- The Dumbest Thing I Ever Believed In To Date: Humane Meat 12 December 2022
- Becoming an Activist, Humane Education, “Humane” Factory Farming 31 December 2021
- Urge U.S. Postal Service & Your U.S. Representative to Ban Shipping Live Birds in the Mail 2 October 2020
- How Much Do Eggs Cost the Birds? UPC Winter-Spring 2020 Poultry Press
- The Boys of the Egg Industry UPC Fall 2019 Poultry Press
- We Protested Nellie’s Eggs Ads: WAMU 88.5 Listened! 8 July 2019 (Also in UPC Fall 2019 Poultry Press)
- WAMU – Stop Advertising Nellie’s “Free‑Range” Eggs! 26 June 2019
- No Pasture Here. Only Pain. UPC Spring 2019 Poultry Press
- Free-Range Egg Fraud Sparks Lawsuit 8 March 2019
- “Cage-Free” Hens: New Investigation Shows Their Hopeless, Horrible Existence 24 February 2017
- “Let Them Eat Chicken,” Audubon 23 December 2016 (Also in UPC Spring 2017 Poultry Press)
- My Visit to Local Farms that Kill Animals but Claim to Be “Humane” 24 February 2016
- Whole Foods: The False Face of Humane Farming – Investigators Find “Certified Humane” Cruelty to Chickens UPC Spring 2015 Poultry Press
- “Let’s Embrace a New Ethic.” Letter Supports Direct Action Everywhere's Disclosure of Whole Foods Scam 14 January 2015
- The Face of Humane Farming: Investigation of Whole Foods Finds Blatant Cruelty to Chickens 14 January 2015
- “The Rougher They Look, The Better They Lay”
30 December 2014
UPC Visits The Happy Hen, Pleasant View Farms, Winfield, Pennsylvania - Hurting Animals Humanely - Two Views 21 August 2014
- How I Learned the Truth About Eggs 2 April 2014
- Factory Farming vs. Alternative Farming: The Humane Hoax
11 March 2014
(Also in UPC Fall 2014 Poultry Press) (Click here for PDF) - "Nature's Perfect Package: Labeling Our Way to a Clear Conscience," by James McWilliams 22 July 2012
- Black Eagle: An Organic Egg Farm Revisited UPC Winter 2011-2012 Poultry Press
vimeo.com/upc/freerangechickenslaughter - 12 January 2012
- UPC Letters Detailing Complaint Re: Black Eagle Farm a.k.a. Piney River Farms LLC 12 January 11
- Myth of Sustainable Poultry and Danger of the Local 10 December 2010
- Black Eagle Farm: Chicken Starvation, Consumer Fraud, Cruelty 18 November 2010
- Humane Meat? It may seem easier to eat “humane meat” than choose vegetarian, but in fact it’s not. 13 June 2009
- A Moral Question on the Dinner Table: NY Times Letters 16 April 2009
- Restoration, a story of 100 rescued "free-range" hens at Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary 6 November 2008
- Oprah Winfrey on Farmed Animals, October 14, 2008 15 October 2008
- Cage-Free Eggs Still Inhumane 24 June 2008
- Veterinary Assessment of Shipping Live Birds as Airmail 14 July 2008
- Battery cages are hell on earth, but let no one be misled to think that the “cage-free” environment is humane. UPC Spring 2008 Poultry Press
- Thousands of Baby Turkeys Perish in Airline Transport UPC Fall 2006 Poultry Press
- Free range has become a meaningless term 6 Mary 2003
- Free Range Survey