Lying about what a label means? That would be crazy
Bringing up a Tyson competitor, the farm manager wonders how other poultry companies handle supposedly free-range-raised chickens. The short answer: They don’t, really.
“Those birds don’t go outside — you know that,” the technician replies. “They don’t all go out … Look that up online.”
The manager chimes in: “It’s not like they make it like all of ’em come out and enjoy the sun.”
“That is strictly for commercial [advertising] purposes,” the technician says.
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In 2017, the Intercept reported an investigation into a dozen California farms owned by a free-range chicken company that found no evidence of any animals spending any time outdoors. The chief animal care officer for Perdue Farms, a major chicken producer, has even said the vast majority of its free-range chickens stay indoors.
No, no it’s fine they were free-range, cage-free and organic humans /s
You said they were cage-free! This one has a call center name tag!
Lying about what a label means? That would be crazy
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23724740/tyson-chicken-free-range-humanewashing-investigation-animal-cruelty
lol yeah that was fun to read when I first read that. Tyson is such a shit company, I’ve been boycotting them so long
This is kind of an industry wide thing that’s more than just Tyson, I should note