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 ...

Chicken producer Perdue Farms has been expanding the volume of free-range chickens it sells in an effort to provide a higher-quality product, as well as to boast a better lifestyle for the birds. That ...

What does it mean for a chicken to be free-range? We often hear terms like cage-free and free-range used interchangeably, but these labels can be misleading. If you value the integrity of your food, ...

What makes an organic chicken organic? Here are the details on raising free-range and organic poultry. With all the concerns about food these days — namely, fats, trans fat, probiotics and omega 3s – ...

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 ...