There’s no longer a hatchet, or sunset clause, as it were, hanging over the heads of chickens taking up coop in the City of Bremerton.when the Bremerton City Council, in a split vote, passed a chicken ordinance last year, they included a sunset clause in case things didn’t work out. But a couple of weeks [...]
Advocates of Mayor Josh Cohen’s urban chicken bill might say city leaders chickened out yesterday, which, coincidentally, was National Poultry Day. Instead of voting yea or nay on giving Annapolis homeowners the right to keep up to five egg-laying hens, the aldermen decided last night to hold yet another public hearing on the legislation in [...]
Advocates of locally sourced food are crowing over backyard chickens. The movement has gained a flock of followers in recent years as more people try to take control of their family’s food chain. It’s even sparked political firestorms in some communities, such as Boston, where lovable little egg-laying hens are banned from backyards. The city [...]
An old adage among advocates of animal welfare suggests that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, most people — if not all of them — would stop eating meat. Now, this idea is being put to the test, as one such glass wall is quite literally set to be constructed in Lawrence, Kansas, giving the public [...]
Food of the week Posted on February 20, 2012 More than 50 billion chickens are reared annually as a source of food, for both their meat and their eggs. The vast majority of poultry are raised using intensive farming techniques. according to the Worldwatch Institute, 74 percent of the world’s poultry meat, and 68 percent of eggs [...]
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SILVER CITY – The date Nov. 8 may be known to many around the country as Election Day, but to a small group of chicken advocates in Silver City, the day means something more. For Polly Cook, who was cited, fined $157 and ordered to get rid of her chickens after she violated the town’s [...]
