I'm pretty sure that in cities in New York there are also laws about
livestock in the city, though I'm sure people have broken it in regards to chickens. I used to live by one guy that had a dozen,
and this was right in the middle of the city.
I find that laws often sit on books for a long time even when they
have outlived their purpose, and when they do you can count on some
one that wants to become important will find them to badger someone
else.
I tend to think that laws should have a shelf life, after which
they need to either be renewed or they automatically expire.
There are lots of lists you can find online about strange laws.
A friend of mine is a romance author, and she and a bunch of other
romance authors wrote a book called "No law against love". The only
thing is that since they are romances they all live happily ever
after and the stupid laws are ignored. In real life it is not always
that way.
Like has been discussed here before many people want to raise chickens and other livestock so they can be assured of how they
are processed, what they are fed and that they are guaranteed healthy
lives (no matter if they are raised for food or as pets). The
trouble with many things in this life is there are always the
extremists who will harm their own image even to make a point,
even if it does make the rest of the world think they are nuts.
Myself I'd like to see laws relaxed so people living in a city
can get back to growing their own food, including small livestock etc.
The cities are poor, and learning stuff like this might help turn things around, like poverty if people could take an interest in
this, it may even help kids stay in touch with origins of food,
so that city kids understand where food comes from and not just
off of a counter at MacDonalds.
As a laugh and kind of an example, our 27 year old autistic daughter
was sitting in the back seat as we drove down the road last weekend.
We pass by this barn that usually has about 4 or 6 chickens running
around the barn yard. My wife likes to look out for them.
As we pass it she says "There are the chickens, Don't you love
chickens Shawna?" My daughter replied "Chicken Sandwich!" (with
a smile on her face too!)
Ray
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Old George" <barnmanager@...> wrote:
>
> Ronnie, I hate to be the one to tell you this but we are already there. Many municipal ordinances, county regulations, zoning rules, etc. Either prohibit chickens or limit the number and/or sex. Not all of us are free. The Feds on the other hand are caught in a bind. They want to encourage home grown produce while being battered by Agra-business on the on hand and PETA on the other. After the "great egg scandal" I think we are are a little bit ahead. Anyway don't give up think "Chicken Power"
> Ol' George
>
> --- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, Ronnie Williams <ronnielbulldog@> wrote:
> >
> > Ok, if I've read this thread correctly, you have 11 LGD's and your in Missouri???? In that case, you will come under the new proposed legislation, Proposition B, and keeping your dogs outside will be illegal, so I'm wondering why my previous post about prop B didn't get sent to the list? It certainly wasn't any more off topic than lots of other posts here, especially when you figure if the government is allowed to tell you how many dogs you can own, it won't be very far down the road before they are telling you how many chickens, cows, etc.
> >
>
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