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Standing in the chicken aisle: barn-raised, free-range, organic — three different lives, three different prices, same blue badge. What does SPCA Certified actually certify, how does it compare internationally, and why does the SPCA endorse a higher standard it doesn't require?
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Bostock organic chicken costs around $200 more per person per year than the standard supermarket brands. That's about $3.85 a week — a takeaway coffee. Here's a side-by-side comparison of what your money is actually buying you, brand by brand and process by process.
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A chicken raised for meat passes through a sequence of inputs and processes between hatching and packaging. Coccidiostats in feed. A chlorine bath at slaughter. Chlorinated water absorbed into the meat and sold by weight. Here's what I found when I mapped the whole journey.
