Was this supposed to be a joke? You should definitely watch Dominion or Land of Hope and Glory to see what the standard practices are in the animal agriculture. There are many awful things that are legal and aren't easily avoidable in most practical scenarios. Male chicks are still of no use to the egg industry so they are most often either ground up alive in a macerator or suffocated in trash bags. Female hens are soon to be murdered as well when the egg laying rate declines. Even though female hens have been bred to such a degree that instead of the natural amount of, like, 20 eggs per year they are subjected to lay 300 or even 500 eggs per year which is a painful and long practice and puts a strain on their bodies and makes them very prone to some horrible complications. "According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), free range means that chickens have access to the outdoors for at least some part of the day, whether the chickens choose to go outside or not. There are no requirements for length of time the chicken must spend outdoors, the size of the outdoor area or the type of groundcover. " -That is all free-range really means, even though very often we see this criteria isn't even met.