The term free range means: “to allow an animal full access to unlimited forage”. However, in commercialized poultry the term literally means to stuff thousands of birds in a huge warehouse and let them have access to a bare dirt floor outside. There area is actually only big enough for around one hundred birds at one time. About 90% of the birds won’t even make it outside. This is just the normal commercial industries improvising to meet qualifications of free range so they can trick their consumers into believing that their poultry is “free range”.

The USDA has made it to where poultry that have no physical boundries to move around (cages for example) are considered "free range". What about the 8,000 chickens that are blocking the chickens in the middle of the warehouse? Is that not considered a physical barrier? If the chickens are lucky, they might find a breeze float their way.