"Free range can help reduce suffering" perhaps it can, but the guidelines and industry standards in America and the UK don't do anything to alleviate suffering.
Birds are still in cramped conditions and debeaked, cows are over milked and often become ill with mastitis or lameness.
The animals are still shipped off to slaughter once they're no longer 'profitable'.
"Free range can help reduce suffering" perhaps it can, but the guidelines and industry standards in America and the UK don't do anything to alleviate suffering.
Birds are still in cramped conditions and debeaked, cows are over milked and often become ill with mastitis or lameness.
The animals are still shipped off to slaughter once they're no longer 'profitable'.