I don't doubt that all of your explanations have some basis in truth.
I remember growing up in the '50s in a neighborhood that was what we would today call a development. We didn't call them that then. But it was an area of farms that were beginning to be subdivided, and my backyard bordered an alfalfa field that belonged to the last hold out farmer. He had chickens, and cows and horses and corn and alfalfa and a kitchen garden. My mom would say that she was anxious for him to finally give up and sell out. She didn't want to have to look out the kitchen window at the farm anymore. And why? She said "I spent my life in the country being dirt poor and raising chickens and weeding the garden. We had to use an outhouse in the middle of the night. I always said that when I got married and had a home of my own there would be no farm animals and outhouses around." So for her, the idea of going back to having chickens in an urban or even a suburban setting would have been a return to days that she wanted to put behind her. I'm guessing there are a lot of others like her. And, at the same time, there are those folks that have never ever been near a farm setting. They think that all farms are filthy and smelly, and don't want to allow anything near them that could fall under those catagories. Both perspectives have their merits and faults, and those of us who fall in between have to pay the price, or rebel. I myself....well, you know how I feel.
I remember growing up in the '50s in a neighborhood that was what we would today call a development. We didn't call them that then. But it was an area of farms that were beginning to be subdivided, and my backyard bordered an alfalfa field that belonged to the last hold out farmer. He had chickens, and cows and horses and corn and alfalfa and a kitchen garden. My mom would say that she was anxious for him to finally give up and sell out. She didn't want to have to look out the kitchen window at the farm anymore. And why? She said "I spent my life in the country being dirt poor and raising chickens and weeding the garden. We had to use an outhouse in the middle of the night. I always said that when I got married and had a home of my own there would be no farm animals and outhouses around." So for her, the idea of going back to having chickens in an urban or even a suburban setting would have been a return to days that she wanted to put behind her. I'm guessing there are a lot of others like her. And, at the same time, there are those folks that have never ever been near a farm setting. They think that all farms are filthy and smelly, and don't want to allow anything near them that could fall under those catagories. Both perspectives have their merits and faults, and those of us who fall in between have to pay the price, or rebel. I myself....well, you know how I feel.
