At 04:28 PM 3/1/01 -0500, you wrote:
>?  I get organic eggs, but I wonder how much free-
>roaming the chickens really do.

According to one grassfed beef and poultry purveyor, "free range" only
means the birds get to go outside a certain portion of the day.  This
outside can mean a concrete pad.  If I remember correctly, it didn't mean
anything much about what they ate.  I don't know what "organic" has to
mean, legally, in terms of eggs.  But the poultry purveyor went to pains to
say how they actually had pasture-ranging birds, which they moved around
frequently in big wire corrals to different pasture sites, so the birds
could eat the grass and bugs and stuff.  I gathered this is not a common
practice, as it's a lot of work.

Ro