I don’t care how free their range is, they could have been raised in a luxury resort and it’d still be shitty to kill animals for food. What gives us the right to any other sentient being’s life, especially now that technology has advanced enough to make meat effectively obsolete.

I have known that “free-range” was a marketing gimmick that was created to help assuage the guilt of people living in an alienating society to differentiate food brands. It has nothing to do with any actual animal husbandry practices which are nearly identical amongst all the worlds abattoirs.

It’s good that people are aware of where their food comes from. It’s an emotional mile-stone that children must overcome to be well adjusted individuals.