Then, why do you feel that way ?
The topic which i linked to explains a considerable amount of information which is behind my approach, and for further reading please check out my topic about
Gary Francione 
it has a radio show with him, and everything !
If animal products or flesh are free-range in origin, it's rare for the person who 's selling it not to say so.
And if the seller claims not to know, or makes no claim at all that those things are free-range, then people would do well to consider whether they really want to get those things from that source.
I would say it was only very slightly less horrible, for an animal to be raised in a warehouse filled with perhaps around 10,000 birds crammed together - than for the birds to be in the same space, but with cages around them in batches of 6 or 12. Many free range birds are raised in almost identical conditions to broiler-shed birds.... the warehouses have an occasional door, but most of the birds will never get to it, and there's hardly anything outside anyway, often just a stip of concrete or mud for them to walk on slightly.
It seems illogical then, for anyone to make a strong distinction between broiler shed birds and free-range birds who have been kept in the same condition.
I would agree, that the step down to battery hens is considerably larger than the one from free-range to broiler-shed..... but even so, as i said before it doesn;t seem like such a big difference to push for.
Have you seen anything to show that battery farming is being ended to any extent, by welfarist reforms ?
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They may be rough around the edges, but a lot less animals will suffer.
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It would be more accurate to say that many animals will continue to suffer horribly, but perhaps a bit less than they would otherwise.
I think there is benefit in advocating that people who will not stop consuming flesh or animal products would at least try to buy free range organic flesh.... but because it isn't so meaningful ethically, I would do that more so because then they would have to at least pay a lot more for what they buy, and so are likely to buy a lot less of it, and it would also be much less convenient so they would eat less of it for that reason also I reckon.