New Campaign Against Backyard Chicken-Keeping

[canada-goose]

Yay. More against chickens nonsense.

 

[Kat'sChicks]

I'm all for expressing opinions and making choices, but I get just a little P.O'd when groups try to make my decisions for me; even angrier when they're backed by celebrities and money and manage to get bills and laws passed regardless of whether it's actually what the majority wants.

Wonder what would happen if a large group of meat eaters would rally and try to ban eating vegetables...? After all, plants are living things too, and it certainly isn't humane to chop a head off or jerk it out of its home by its roots.....and boil or grind it up????? Oh, the horror!!!

 

[EweSheep]

Oh for the love of ...............!

Not going to happen here! I am not going to turn into vegan either. I need protein!

 

[fancbrd4me02]

It's sad that a few of these folks make the rest of the moderate animal rights supporters look out of control and irrational. I think these people are well intentioned, but they subscribe to the unfair philosophy of punishing everyone for the crimes of a few. I keep chickens, and I am a vegetarian (meaning: I eat no meat or fish, but I eat milk, honey, dairy) and I support the humane treatment of animals, but I don't support taking away peoples rights to raise animals for food, eggs, wool, honey, or whatever as long as they treat them well. I think the problem is that some practices (like the chick grinding, which is an external sign of our national addiction to wanton decadence, and tiny cages in factories are not okay, just good $$ making stratagies) has made all aspects of livestock raising appear wrong to a lot of people. PETA has done some good, but they have also refused to err on the side of common sense in a lot of cases, which sadly has hurt the progression of humane treatment for animals in factory farms which is the real problem. backyard/small scale chicken keeping as we know is not the problem.

 

[Jess N Jeff]

Now I am all for humane treatment of animals....

But, when these animal advocate people get all crazy with their "everyone should be a vegetarian" bs, I have to stop and tell them this....These animals that they are trying to protect aren't even vegetarians!!! Why is it ok to protect them from us, but its ok for them to eat eachother???? I don't get it?!?!?!

 

[JewellFarm]

Just one more thing for them to stick their noses in................good grief!!!!

 

[AZKat]

Ok, that pretty much sums up my opinions on the subject.

Seriously though, extreme vegans coming out against backyard chicken keeping might not be a entirely bad thing. The overwhelming majority of people think that extreme vegans (that is, people who want to push their dietary beliefs on the rest of us) are absolutely nuts. Compared to this ranting, people who are saying "I want to eat healthy, sustainably, ethically raised eggs' are going to look sympathetic and reasonable.

I have a lot of reasons for thinking that everyone going vegan isn't a realistic or healthy option, but to me, the nail in the coffin was when I read The Omnivore's Dilemma and the author pointed out that if everyone became vegan we'd be totally dependent on petrochemical fertilizer, since we'd have no way of getting manure to use for fertilizer.

 

[Lensters]

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I'm sure that the PETA nuts would argue that we could collect the wild animal's poop while we are out giving the overpopulated animals their birth control. Yep, that's it.

 

[cassie]

You need to keep two things in mind. One, PETA's main objective is raising money for PETA. The animals are simply the vehicle used for that purpose. Virtually none of the money raised by PETA goes toward helping animals. Two, the animal rights (as opposed to animal welfare) groups are against the keeping of animals for any purpose at all, even as companions.

 

[Daisygirl]

Shipping is not good for the chicks, but I still dont get why they say dont eat eggs? are we 'killing' an animal by eating one, or promoting animal cruelty by doing so, even tho these are our OWN hens? little confused here...