Comment 73243

By Leghorn (anonymous) | Posted January 23, 2012 at 08:28:09

This could easily be passed along with the stipulation that licensed urban chicken farmers/stewards must have a large lot (in some cases at least an acre of land) set aside for the purpose, and standard setbacks from neighbouring houses).

That's preferable to cases like St. Catharines, where it's apparently legal to keep chickens but you have to keep your livestock indoors... or the notional liberty of "free range", which might be just an industrial farm with an open door (and urban farmers are certainly not de facto more ethical or humane than their rural counterparts).

Any success will almost certainly come arm-in-arm with licensing and inspection regimes.... part of the "what's good for the goose" reality of farming, urban or rural.

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