Chipotle chain offers taste of what free-range meat has to offer.

From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) | Date: September 26, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: John Schmeltzer

THORNTON, Iowa _ "These are free-range pigs," says Paul Willis standing on a gravel road looking at a 100-acre field in which nearly 2,000 little porkers and very large hogs are free to roam.

An electric fence, two strands of wire that work only so-so, is the only thing that keeps them from wandering into the neighboring corn field and up to the white farmhouse that has been converted into an office.

This is the way pigs should be raised, according to the 61-year-old Willis. He is leading a revolution against the antibiotics, hormones, ...

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