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Free range meat production involves providing open air access to animals instead of confining them to barns. They should be free to roam in open fields along with other animals and should receive natural light. Open pasture access (for at least 120 days in a year) is an important criterion for organic meat production.
However, you should note that free range meat is not organic meat. Free range meat does not involve any guidelines for the animal feed. A good thing is that there are stringent guidelines for medication of free range animals as well and these are more or less similar to those in organic meat production.
What does Freedom Food Label mean?
Many of you must have come across freedom food label on meat products. The freedom food label means that the animals have been raised taking their welfare into consideration. This labeling scheme has been set by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in 1994 in the UK.
Further Reading:
Meat-IMS
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