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Some of us, who are concerned about animal care and healthy food, eat "free range chicken" and "free range eggs." You probably have read the account of 1000's of chickens in tiny cages so narrow they can't even turn around, kept in special bright light 24 hours a day to increase egg production, you will never want to eat modern agribusiness's eggs and chickens again.

Would you rather be a free range chicken or that chicken in a tiny cage.

I would submit to you that a child penned up in his suburban 6' solid fenced back yard, because the street he lives on is not safe for children due to strangers in high speed cars and trucks, is little better off than a caged chicken. He has no more relative effective range! He has no more effective ability to learn how to reign responsibly – to exercise his will and creativity in regards to the real world.

Most of my "range" as a child had to do with country roads and town streets. Whether it was

• Riding my bike a mile to my sisters and
• Stopping to play in the woods
• Throwing stones at the carp in the creek
• Taking the haybaler to the next farm
• Riding my bike up to the post office to get the mail.

As a child I had "real kingdoms" where I exercised "real power" and did creative valuable "real work." My life counted.

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