Irische Landwirte geben an, dass die Hauptgründe für die Freilandhaltung von Schweinen das bessere Tierwohl, die Nachhaltigkeit und der Geschmack des Fleisches sind. Die größte Herausforderung besteht darin, dass die Verbraucher nicht wissen können, wann Schweine im Freien gehalten werden, und sie daher nicht finanziell unterstützen.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0341440
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You can’t support what you can’t identify.
They can put „free range“ on chickens and eggs, just come up with some clever marketing that’s somewhat relatively truthful.
Like everything, government regulations generally help at setting the lowest bar.
Otherwise, yes, quality products will have to compete against consistently cheaper products and it ends up being a race to the bottom when all the customers can see is the price.
In Norway we have something branded as „Free Roaming Pigs“ (Frilandsgris) that does the trick, though I suspect most people are not aware.
Enough people choose it however, so the concept of the original farm, Grøstad, has been turned into an alliance of several farms following the same principles to be able to supply enough for the stores to keep up with demand.
I don’t know what it’s like in Ireland but around here livestock corporations go to *extreme* lengths to prevent civilians from seeing what goes on in their farms. Free range labelling is necessary for consumers.