The term "free-range" generally refers to the method of raising animals or farming products in a space allowing natural behavior and movement. Antonyms for "free-range" could be "caged," "confined," "restricted," or "enclosed." These terms depict a system in which animals are kept in a small and limited space without any movement or freedom to roam. "Intensive farming" or "factory farming" are also used as antonyms for free-range farming, indicating a highly commercialized and industrialized system, where animals are kept in cramped spaces and fed with antibiotics and artificial feed. Moreover, "indoors" and "underground" could also be antonyms of free-range farming, where animals are kept indoors in a closed environment or underground without any access to outside space or natural light.

What are the antonyms for Free-range?

• adj.

  • noun
  • confined
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Famous quotes with Free-range

• [Flying into Baltimore after 9/11] I didn't want to see some pacifist, vegan, whole-wheat, free-range, organic, progressive, gray-ponytail, communist, liberal, draft-dodging, NPR-listening wimp! What are they going to do if somebody tries to hijack the plane? Throw a Birkenstock at him? Offer him some pot?...I was hoping for about twenty-five NRA-loving, gun-nut, serial-killing, psychopathic, Ollie North, Norman Schwarzkopf, right-wing, Agent Orange, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, CIA, FBI, automatic-weapon, smart-bomb, laser-sighting bastards!

  Sherman Alexie
• Gilt-tooled on yard-square panels of green leather—imitation, of course—the zodiacal signs looked down from the walls of the executive lunch-room. The air was full of the chatter of voices and the clink of ice-cubes. Waiting to be attacked when the president of the company joined them (he had promised to show at one sharp) was a table laden with expensive food: hard-boiled eggs, shells intact so that it could be seen they were brown, free-range, rich in carotene; lettuces whose outer leaves had been rasped by slugs; apples and pears wearing their maggot-marks like dueling scars, in this case presumably genuine ones though it had been known for fruit growers to fake them with red-hot wires in areas where insects were no longer found; whole hams, very lean, proud of their immunity from antibiotics and copper sulphate; scrawny chickens; bread as coarse as sandstone, dark as mud and nubbled with wheat grains . . .

  John Brunner

The antonyms for the term "Middle Class Populations" are "extreme poverty populations" and "wealthy high-class populations." Extreme poverty populations refer to people who suffer ...