Conditions vary on different farms for free-range chickens. Only a minority of them are running around free and happy (in their chosen sexuality). Many of them are still fenced in (outdoors instead of in) or just look out a window with a tear in their eyes (like Duke). In the US at least, the “free-range” label is not regulated. There are no standards that producers have to meet. Plus free-range says nothing about whether they’re fed organically or not. Some are, some aren’t.
So organic is what you should be looking for more than free-range. If it’s got an organic label, it’s probably got a free-range one, but not necessarily the other way around. Rukas’s chemical-free farm sounds like it’s organic and the way to go, if you eat chicken or eggs.
