If you were to invest money in one animal or the other, and love the taste of eggs and chicken wings, then chickens would be the better deal. Right?
“Chicken food is cheaper than dog food.” (RJ)
And that too, I suppose.
RJ concludes his recent letter to the Free Press by saying, “So give chickens a break, as long as they are kept in reasonable numbers.” (June 25)
I agree with that too, as far as backyard chicken coops are concerned, and feel City Hall’s continued resistance to the idea is short-sighted.
[“Connect with nature; run with the chickens.”]
London is addicted to the culture of big - “This was wonderful when gas was cheap, but it’s not anymore” - and because much of our lifestyle revolves around driving almost everywhere to get what we need or want, we appear to be “raising the future generation of hospital patients... (with) alarming childhood obesity trends... we need to turn our cities into exercise machines.” (Avi Friedman, June 2, The Londoner)
Though we likely need to do 101 more things for ourselves, or become more self-reliant in a myriad of ways, building a coop and raising a few hens is not a bad place to start.
We walk on cement sidewalks, ride on tarmac streets, drive everywhere in fossil-fuel powered metal shells, live much of our lives surrounded by glass, steel, brick and mortar, thereby isolating ourselves daily from the benefits of our natural surroundings. Countless miles of asphalt cover fertile acreages, sprawling subdivisions shrink our contact with living green spaces and big-agri chemicals foul our streams and rivers. The more “modern” we grow the more ways we cut off our five senses from Mother Earth.
Though City Hall will continue to resist the notion of coops, the rising price of fossil fuels will one day spark a greater interest in doing more for ourselves.
Too bad the door won’t open a crack to the possibility of practicing a few natural, sustainable skills today.
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Please click here to read PT1 “Chickens are different than dogs, but better.”
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