When the average person thinks of “free-range” meat, they tend to picture farms with grassy fields speckled by beautiful black and white spotted cows, roaming and grazing as they please. Yet even ...

West Michigan organic farmer Mike O'Brien walks through snowy fields, envisioning the spring day when green grass will sprout for his animals to eat. O'Brien describes watching the chicks delight and ...

Packington Free Range are celebrating winning The Good Pig Award in the 2012 Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards organised by the charity, Compassion in World Farming. Online, October 1, 2012 ...

Most livestock farmers in Nyandarua County use the free range style where cows are tethered at open farm paddocks during the day and fed in troughs in the evening. At Ndemi in Kipipiri along River ...

Look closely at egg cartons in the supermarket, and you'll find many marketing claims—from organic to natural, and everything in between. Two of the most common labels, “cage-free” and “free-range,” ...

Animal welfare proponents have emphasized the need for a free-range environment, especially compared with battery-cage life, the chicken version of tenements. Battery or unenriched cages are minimal, ...

A study published in Royal Society Open Science reveals striking trade-offs when it comes to different methods of egg production. Using UK data, the study compared several possible scenarios for the ...