Since when can’t you butcher your own food animals? We butcher deer, elk, calves, lambs - why not goats?
A neighbor of mine had a goat dairy, and beside selling milk to organic markets made fine gourmet cheeses which she sold to the restaurant markets in Portland and Seattle. Because of the number of male baby goats she couldn’t afford to feed, she slaughter them for their meat. So what gives with these squeamish Easterners?
It is also illegal to raise livestock in your basement.
All that raw sewage is put into the storm drain system, which in most cities is separate from the sewage systems.
Most towns/cities have by-laws preventing the raising of farm animals within city limits and on property not zoned for such use.
Goat milk is mostly used for lactose intolerant babies, not 'organic markets', which your friend would not qualify for anyways, for several reasons, one being having her back yard certified toxin free. Then there are feed issues, which she would not be able to prove is organic, and can't certify since she has no control over growing it. No doubt there are niche markets for goat cheeze though, and it' relativly easy to make. You have to aquire a taste for it though, and some goats are better than others for making it.
A couple of goats wouldn't make a whole lot of milk and goat cheese however.
Squeamish Northeasterners....
Some of us East of the Mississippi don't have a problem with slaughtering goats (or chickens, or cows, or geese, or ducks, or deer or turkey, or lamb or hogs) Goat isn't my first choice, but to each his own.