HAH! Yes he does like the roaches of the sea... as do I. Though non water based giant bugs gross me out (and no I can't explain this). I think he's more interested in being against the hippie green movement as it's too extreme and has these weird new fangled ideas. I figure if you think of how most things are raised, cared for, processed, etc there is probably something you're not going to like (even if it's just fertilizer for plants), that your food was grown or processed in/on. Though I guess the whole point is he didn't really think about it to begin with.
.... my mom still thinks I'm strange, but apparently she has been scarred for life having chickens as a child. She said she was always sent out to get eggs, and she associates chickens with rats (which she really doesn't like), and a big ol' mess to clean up. They had a lot of chickens grown up though. I have 4, and no matter how many I had I'd take steps to prevent or eradicate rats if I knew about them.
She did have a good laugh about my newest chicken though. My Polish runs a lot more upright and will get excited and flap and run at the same time. That combined with her poofy head she's just hilarious looking. Actually she looks like a Chocobo IMO. So she asked me if it was a chicken or if I'd adopted an alien bird.
He's a nice neighbor though and really just didn't know so I told him they will lay without and he soaked that in for a moment then looked at me and exclaimed, "Huh... And I was raised on a farm too!"
