Posted on 08/18/2009 10:11:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
What's next -- clean air?
After all the factory farming industry has done for us, it's shameful that people can't show a little more gratitude. Thanks to massive industrial complexes where cows, chickens, and pigs spend their artificially short lives in dire confinement, ankle deep in their own poo and kept alive on a diet of corn syrup and trash, we have regular access to affordable meats and eggs that are very nearly edible most of the time! And how do consumers say thank you to these brave souls? They start growing their own chickens. And eggs. In their own backyards. A number of American cities have already jumped on the "urban chicken" movement, with residents turning their once-scenic and fragrant yards into pestilent dens of stinking guano. Such unreconstructed hippies love to play the modern homesteader, gathering eggs every morning and baling out their coops on weekends. The latest such Farmer Joes: two women, Gay-Ellen Stulp and Stephany Miskunas, who are trying to get backyard chickens legalized in their Lafayette, Indiana neighborhood.
It's been a blast," Stulp said of her quest. "I can't believe the discussions I've gotten as I go around with my petition. "It's a little hobby. They are pets. I guess I'm now part of the chicken underground." Sure, they're pets to you, lady! But to the children of men and women who run and work at the massive egg farms that produce cheap, brittle-shelled, anemic, watery eggs for the rest of us, these chickens are nothing less than a threat to their very way of life.
Plus, if there's one thing this healthcare debate has taught us, it's how terrifically un-American it is to introduce cheap not-for-profit competitors to large, profit-driven companies that have employees and taxes to pay. In other words, the private coop is just one slippery slope away from the private co-op.
So let's hope this dangerous "urban chicken" trend doesn't spread any further. Because if it does, the next thing you know people will be growing their own vegetables to go with their eggs. And that way lies socialism.
Think of the water pollution. It has to be driving libs nuts that these eggs might go untaxed
You can’t win. Growing up, if you had a yard with chickens that didn’t belong to a barn, you were trash. Now, it’s the hip, swingin’, “urban” thing to do.
Trash eat pigeons. Elites and thrifty folks from foreign countries eat “squab.”
i’ll turn in anyone I catch raising chickens in their yard!
My neighbors of questionable citizenship credentials let their chickens run loose... in my yard.
Are you eating good then?
Get a pellet gun and waste them.
free food!
I got a big yard, I’m waiting ‘til they get good and fat from all their grazing. ;-D
Fruit tree sales are also WAY up.
I’ve started ordering earlier and earlier.
I am ordering NOW for next year, a full seven months earlier then last time. Still can’t get all the trees I want.
This helps people get much more independent. I see no downside.
Raising Chickens is awesome. I hope to go into chick sales in a couple of years.
BTW, a pox on Any one that reports on their neighbor.
If you haven’t had any home raised, bug fed chicken eggs, you don’t know what eggs are supposed to taste like. The difference is as great as that between winter store tomatoes and home garden grown.
Most of the food we get in supermarkets is only a watery shadow of what it should be.
I would venture that most “backyard chicken” raisers across this country are conservative. Most have been doing it before it was trendy.
So the snarky sarcasm of this article wouldn’t go over well with most of them. “Progressives” trying to make backyard poultry into some kind of political statement. Makes me sick.
But then again, every time a “Progressive” opens their mouth, I feel barf in my mouth.
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