There is indeed a farmer's market, but it's not very amenable to working people, as it's only during the day on a weekday. (Don't get me started on home many institutions seem to expect working people to have a housewife.)
I read the PETA site, and they did indeed have that to say about ducks. Overall I found their site somewhat unhelpful (many of the practices they say 'are common in farming' have been outlawed in the UK for over 15 years!), and they tended to mix a lot of emotive language with what facts they did have. The problem is that they make it difficult to discern what is 'something we heard from someone working on a farm' and what is actual practice.
In the UK, the definite of free range is very specific about the amount of time they have access to runs and density in housing, and set by DEFRA there's a link here http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodrin/poultry/faq/marketing.htm
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I read the PETA site, and they did indeed have that to say about ducks. Overall I found their site somewhat unhelpful (many of the practices they say 'are common in farming' have been outlawed in the UK for over 15 years!), and they tended to mix a lot of emotive language with what facts they did have. The problem is that they make it difficult to discern what is 'something we heard from someone working on a farm' and what is actual practice.
In the UK, the definite of free range is very specific about the amount of time they have access to runs and density in housing, and set by DEFRA there's a link here
http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodrin/poultry/faq/marketing.htm