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

[Judy]

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This is exactly what is so scary and upsetting about these absurd laws, to me.

I want to see a "right to farm" law enacted federally. Of course it will never happen, just for this reason.

 

[Triggerjay]

Next thing is they will tell you you can grow a garden,.... but can't eat the veggies.

Jason

 

[Davaroo]

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I think the phrase "make a practice of" indicates a frequency that surpasses personal use. I would send a letter to the town attorney asking for clarification on whether you are allowed to occasionally harvest your flock for your own personal use as allowed by state law.

I would uphold the letter of that statute and just avoid the attorney. Be discrete, be clean and be no nuisance.

 

[Davaroo]

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I think you should go out behind the shed and do what you gotta.
Be neat, be clean and don't leave anything that could harbor disease after you are done.
And count your blessings you are "allowed" by your controllers to have them at all.

I am deeply wondering why you are encouraging breaking the law, but if it's illegal to keep chickens in my town, I'm not afraid to break the law!!!

Apparently you are in touch with the notion of 'civil dis-obedience.' I applaud you - - -

Our problem is not disobedience, but civil obedience.... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem: civil obedience.

We are talking about obedience to law - law, this marvelous invention of modern times, which we talk about proudly. The rule of law, oh, how wonderful.... Remember those bad old days when people were exploited by feualism? ...But now we have the rule of law.

Phooey! The rule of law has regularized and maximized the injustice that existed before the rule of law, that is what the rule of law has done. Let us start looking at the rule of law realistically, not with metaphysical complacency, as we examined it before.

In all the nations of the world, the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people - we ought to begin to recognize this.... It's like the Republican and Democratic parties, who claim that it's going to make a terrible difference if one or the other wins, yet they are all the same. Basically, it is us against them." - - Howard Zinn, 1970

So you whack (or raise) a few chickens in your backyard. Big deal. And if you get caught? You pay a fine, you tuck your head and you fight on.

As AmyBella wrote:

"It is absurd for the government to try and regulate how citizens choose to feed themselves. I hope you fight it, and win."

Power to the People, baby! I'm glad you understand, too.

PS For the entire essay from Mr. Zinn, go here:

The Problem is Civil Obedience

 

[FluffyColor]

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[Mojo Chick'n]

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tell them you practice Santeria - freedom of religion and all that

just kidding

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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That is what I thought but they do not normally consume them do they?

Some do - most do, actually, unless the animal is used in a healing or purifying manner - then it is discarded, because in theory, it has the taint/disease/etc. on it that you had on you.

eta - if you think about it, why would folks from a starving country (granted they would be in America, but still probably poor) waste a perfectly good animal? I know in Haiti that Vodoun rituals draw big crowds because every animal slaughtered is then cooked and shared - it is sometimes the only meat or the only meal some folks get. They eat Dirt Cookies in some places in Haiti - just to have something in their stomach.

And before I get blasted

think about other religions (more acceptable ones) who kill their food in a ritualistic manner to make it more "clean" or "holy" for eating (like Jewish folks...)

meri

 

[FluffyColor]

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I am deeply wondering why you are encouraging breaking the law, but if it's illegal to keep chickens in my town, I'm not afraid to break the law!!!

Apparently you are in touch with the notion of 'civil dis-obedience.' I applaud you - - -

Our problem is not disobedience, but civil obedience.... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem: civil obedience.

We are talking about obedience to law - law, this marvelous invention of modern times, which we talk about proudly. The rule of law, oh, how wonderful.... Remember those bad old days when people were exploited by feualism? ...But now we have the rule of law.

Phooey! The rule of law has regularized and maximized the injustice that existed before the rule of law, that is what the rule of law has done. Let us start looking at the rule of law realistically, not with metaphysical complacency, as we examined it before.

In all the nations of the world, the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people - we ought to begin to recognize this.... It's like the Republican and Democratic parties, who claim that it's going to make a terrible difference if one or the other wins, yet they are all the same. Basically, it is us against them." - - Howard Zinn, 1970

So you whack (or raise) a few chickens in your backyard. Big deal. And if you get caught? You pay a fine, you tuck your head and you fight on.

As AmyBella wrote:

"It is absurd for the government to try and regulate how citizens choose to feed themselves. I hope you fight it, and win."

Power to the People, baby! I'm glad you understand, too.

PS For the entire essay from Mr. Zinn, go here:

The Problem is Civil Obedience

Huh?That looks complicated.Actually,it would be my parents' fine,because they're the ones that give me money.

 

[Davaroo]

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Yeah, it was a little deep, I guess.

 

[FluffyColor]

Well...it looks like it's that way in my town too......