Well, maybe you can call it a chicken.

I’ve watched commercials and seen products in the grocery stores that advertise their products are made from CAGE FREE chickens.  Since beginning to eat healthier years ago I have started watching the subtle differences in the way companies market their products.  I WAS a Marketing major back in the day.  The days before marriage and kids and dogs and cats……..well, you get the picture.

So last night I am watching a mayonnaise commercial advertising they use CAGE FREE eggs.  That may sound good, right?  But just exactly what does CAGE FREE mean?  They live in a hotel?  They are not in a wire cage?  Do they get sunlight?  Are they kept in a barn with millions of other chickens who are fed genetically engineered corn?

Now FREE RANGE chickens ….. well, they are a different story if they are TRULY free range chickens.  The only way to be sure that you know you are getting one of those little guys who get to peck around in the barn yard eating all kinds of bugs and things that actually give us PROTEIN and soak up all kinds of sunshine which give us VITAMIN D is to know the producer of your chicken.  We buy locally from a co-op and I just refuse to buy any meat from a grocery store!  But those CAGE FREE birds…..sorry guys, that one is not working on this gal!

Give me a “pecking around the barnyard chicken” any day of the week.

Go an watch Food, Inc.

You’ll get the picture!

I found this interesting article on labeling as well.