AVMA News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Department of Agriculture is asking meat and poultry producers to take further steps ensuring the veracity of products they market under such claims as “free range” or “raised without antibiotics.”

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Many rehabbers raise several crows together and release them on site. The crows are not friendly to humans, although they sometimes make an exception for the person who raised them. While I was getting him acclimated to go in the outdoor flight, he had free range of my studio.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2020

But when raised, they seem to have a sort of weird cape. In other words, they never raise their own young. Instead, they lay their eggs in other species’ nests, and let those nest-making birds (often significantly smaller than the cowbirds) raise their young. But in most light, they appear to have a shiny black color.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Also frequent escapees (or very free ranging domestics) are guinea fowl and to a lesser extent a number of other gamebirds up to and including peacocks. There are any number of concerns one could raise. Can we find a suitable island free from feral predators that would devastate the introduced species?

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). So, I thought you could be interested in helping us to raise the funds. Thanks a lot.

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

From the 6th -10th of July we are asking everyone to get their aprons on and bake with free-range or organic eggs. By encouraging people to bake with higher welfare eggs (as well as organic milk, butter and chocolate) vital funds will be raised to campaign against battery cages.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 10, 2009

Here is a New York Times op-ed column about free-range pigs. He seems to think that the demand for free-range pork is a demand for wild pork, when in fact it's a demand for morally acceptable conditions for the pigs. In other words, people want to eat not wild pigs but domestic pigs raised in humane conditions.

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