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Most critically, the people who say this generally use it to justify buying the same old meat that comes from giant, wholly unnatural factory farms where animals are crammed into filthy sheds or cages and not allowed to do anything natural to them -- at all, ever (breathe fresh air, bask in the sun, raise their young, dustbathe, form social orders, etc.).
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They can, however, walk, perch, dustbathe and lay their eggs in nests -- all behaviors permanently denied to hens confined in battery cages.
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