According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), each American eats approximately 94 pounds of chicken a year (1). The consumption of chicken is expected to grow in the coming years, ...

North Carolina’s poultry farms are everywhere. The state cloaks big poultry in secrecy to the point regulators don’t even know where most of the farms are located. Neighbors complain about the stench ...

Q: Are "free-range chickens" truly so? I have heard that in most instances, the chickens are granted release from constricted cages for a short time only and still spend their lives in small cages. A: ...

Sometime during or after lockdown, a substantial number of people decided it would easier to raise their own chickens than buying eggs from the grocery store. With worldwide supply chain issues due to ...

That’s a question free-range egg producers have been pondering lately as they try to be open about their product while also protecting chickens from a highly infectious bird flu that has killed ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Is it OK for free-range chickens to not range freely? That’s a question free-range egg producers have been pondering lately as they try to be open about their product while also ...

Packages of Perdue Harvestland “free range” chicken sit on a refrigerated store shelf. Just because a package says “free range” doesn’t necessarily mean the chicken ever left the barn. Ames Alexander ...