Free-Range Quotes

Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

I'm so crazy now about 'organic' and 'fresh' and stuff that's 'free range.'

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

I really fought hard to bring that story to life on 'Total Divas,' the factory farming and free-range chicken. I'm shocked to see the positive response because you never know. People could be sensitive to certain things.

I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.

If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm.

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.

Ask where your meat and fish come from. Organic and free-range is a little bit more expensive, but if you can afford it, you will taste the difference.

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

One of the pivotal moments for me was realizing that our 'food with integrity' approach at Chipotle was satisfying my passion. That's about bringing the best quality, sustainably-raised ingredients to everyone: chicken without antibiotics; beef without hormones. These ingredients were only available in high-end restaurants, not mainstream places.