Legal to keep, illegal to slaughter...tips?

[phoenixmama]

I live in a town where it is legal to keep any form of livestock/farm animal/poultry, however it is illegal to slaughter any animal (even for your own family's consumption). I'm debating trying to fight the town on this, what do you think?

 

[Cara]

How completely absurd. How detached people have become from their food sources

 

[MysticScorpio82]

Do you mean it's illegal to slaughter them on your own property? Are you able to take them to a processor for the time being?

I do agree it is absurb that you can't process your own livestock for self consumption...

 

[Wifezilla]

Uhhh...how is anyone else going to know if you butcher an animal in your kitchen? If you freeze it an put it on a styrofoam tray...you can say you bought it at the grocery store..LOL

 

[shawnkfl]

now, this has me dumbfounded. i don't even know how to type in the thoughts in my head with this. you can keep them but not eat them.....very strange for sure. i would go into a county board meeting with locally raised steaks and slap them down in front of each board member. tell them they would be commiting a crime if they ate them.

 

[CityClucks]

Huh?

Totally weird. Obviously I'm with shawnkfl - but even more speechless.

 

[phoenixmama]

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The problem is that there is not a single independent poultry processor in the entire state of Arizona. The only meat processors around here do beef and bison.

 

[phoenixmama]

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True, although it's the principle of the thing, ya know?

 

[EngieKisses]

I can not find any processors in our area either, just pork and beef. We processed ours, and I do not see how your neighbors would know, unless they heard the hatchet. Ours did not make a noise.

 

[TipsyDog]

The stupidity is endless.

I'd just kill and eat whatever I wanted and that's that. There is no point in arguing with fools.