date:May 30, 2012
FA promotes a stocking density limit of 750 hens per hectare for eggs to qualify as free range.
Likewise, a media statement from lobby group Humane Choice said, It appears the intention of the AECL was to present a standard to the ACCC that suited the larger industrialized producers while seriously marginalizing the genuine free range farmer. We can only trust that the ACCC has recognised this and also acknowledged that the consumer will disadvantaged if this standard were to ever make it into