Freedom Foods Chicken.

I only buy meat if I know that it has had a good life before being killed because last year me and my partner rescued chickens from a battery farm where they are locked in cages too small, with not enough room to open their wings, these birds have bad feet, combs and are usually crippled. The chickens we rescued were in a very bad state when we got them one had a broken wing from being manhandled and none of them had many feathers but now they are free range in a big garden, they look better and you can tell they are happy. The chickens are not being eaten they give us 5 eggs a day but it is very important to me that all animals are treated fairly.

I have never heard of freedom foods chicken, but I know in the US you can get what is called "free range" chicken, and that is what it sounds like you are describing. You can also get free range eggs.Some people believe that it is more nutritious, because the chickens get to eat whatever nature has provided, in addition to any chicken feed. I think they may be right.

You get what you pay for and the kind of chicken you bought is a bit more costly but well worth it! It is on a higher scale then regular store bought chickens. Many years ago I use to raise chickens and the best tasting chicken is or rather was a happy chicken! My girls as I called them were so spoiled and treated like queens that they were even allowed in my house! In the winter, we kept them in the basement. They had little houses full of straw and plenty of good food and snacks and they kept the basement free of spiders too! YUUUUK! They would roam all over the basement and lay their eggs where ever they wanted to, usually on the straw, but one time there was an egg on my washer, how it got there I'll never know! My husband and I were going into the organic chicken business but after he killed two of them for dinner, (they tasted great), we didn't have the heart to ever kill any again, we loved them too much, so we gave up the business and just kept the (girls) as our pets!

I would like to know where you can buy free range chicken here in Winnipeg, MB. It seems that when we buy anything organic or is from the farm, that it is more expensive. All we see are the factory produced chicken and the ones that are raised on farms and taste better like the ones that my husband had when he was a boy, are too high priced for us.

there's not a lot to say to this, but I've plussed you. yes, free range is more expensive, but freedom foods is only a little more expensive, and a standard of living, that while not outdoors and natural, is at least one where I can feel satisfied that the animals are mentally stimulated and physically get all they need. having seen the difference, yes, they are still barned, yes they are still indoors, but they have room to move and scratch and peck, and objects they can climb and play with and interact with. these chickens live a much happier life. if I was to be a chicken, I'd much rather be free range, BUT, I do think that freedom foods standard birds have a contented enough life.

good chiken and not expansive! Good appetite

Yes, I always buy what we call, free range chicken in the UK. It always tastes better and there is the knowledge that I am not supporting battery-chicken farming where the bird spends its entire life in a cage that is hardly big enough for it to turn around in. :-) Derek

Well done. I haven't eaten a chicken that was not free range or organic in years now. Freedom Food poultry is definitely a step in the right direction and is worth the relatively small amount extra that has to be paid. Congratulations. I'm really proud of you.

I try as much as possible to buy freedom foods and I also look for the scottish flag, union jack and red tractor as the farming practices in the UK are more stringent than Europe and a lot of what supermarkets stock is EU. I can't remember the last time I bought non free range eggs, I even bought them when they were way more expensive than the battery eggs and it's so good to see the price come down as more people buy them.