New Quality Phrase in an Ad?

A chicken in a cage free environment is able to move around, to spread her wings when she finds the room to and to lay in a nest. That's opposed to hens in cages who are so closely quartered that they cannot even spread their wings. There is no place for them to lay their eggs except right where they are, a very unnatural thing. People buy cage free eggs because the hens are treated at least a little more humanely than caged hens.

Took care of a couple dozen (average) various types of chickens on my family's farm as a girl, hatching, raising, feeding them, eating the 5 year-olds, & yes, since they were "free-range" (or now, "cage-free"), I thus felt as though most mornings were Easter, as I searched out the places they'd chosen to lay the night before. Of course I left brooding nests alone. Mama hens are brutal, then. BUT...moral considerations re cage eggs aside, free eggs TASTE so much better, because of free chickens' far wider diet, which includes insects & fresh plants! We supplemented their natural diet with a bit of seed corn, but 90% of their food came from foraging. Our hens & roosters lived long, pleasant lives. Even their -meat- was far tastier! Their eggs also are much more orange-y, too. Likr Western sunsets! If you like eggs, try these! MP

cage-free means they aren't in those "factory" sites where they stand on wires all day and get bad feet - they get to wander around, probably in a barn or something like that - I know that's how turkeys are raised...

hmmmmm its the same as here with these commercials. It shall just bring the illusion to you that the poor hens producing the eggs are happier cause they are not kept in a cage but can run around outside. But no one tells you how much space the poor creatures have to "run" around.

i have heard this same commercial alakanray and thought it was weird...then i remembered back in the 90's watching martha stewart with my mother and how martha was carrying on about having free range chickens so i wondered if it was the same trendy thing, just with a new name to make people be into it again...personally, as a bologna hater, i dont' want to know too much about where my food comes from or how..it might spoil it all for me...

This sounded funny to me too, until I saw your last post. That's just terrible that they'd mutilate their beaks to "minimize" damage, rather than simply not put them in such close quarters. Still, what does it benefit us, the public, knowing these eggs are caged eggs or not, considering the fact that both are not treated nicely.