Yes, because teaching future voters any kind of public advocacy skills is evil.

Subby, next time you feel like trying to make a point; lie down and take a nap instead. Thanks.

MeinRS6: If any of your neighbors start raising chickens, that's when you realize just how bad this idea truly is.

Roosters don't just crow at dawn in the country.

RTFA, it was to allow HENS, not roosters. It's a distinction often made in urban livestock. Nice quiet hens.

MeinRS6: If any of your neighbors start raising chickens, that's when you realize just how bad this idea truly is.

Roosters don't just crow at dawn in the country.

For a while, my next door neighbors kept chickens (with at least one rooster).
I was tempted daily to firebomb their house.

I don't think this allows for roosters, though.

They are just preparing for the end of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency. A time when we will be growing most of our food and using our feces as fertilizer. God willing.

I think some are taking subby too seriously here.

NewportBarGuy: They are just preparing for the end of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency. A time when we will be growing most of our food and using our feces as fertilizer. God willing.

There is a book on that. It's called "The humanure handbook". Better start reading up (free on the interwebs). (although to be fair it is about composting feces not using it directly as fertilizer)

MeinRS6: If any of your neighbors start raising chickens, that's when you realize just how bad this idea truly is.

Roosters don't just crow at dawn in the country.

Now who's, I say who's responsible for this unwarranted attack on my person!

Won't someone please think of the children chickens?

Listen you farking hippy/hipster morons: If you want to raise livestock, MOVE TO THE COUNTRY! That's what the country is for. There's lots of space for a compost heap and you can get one of those goats that tips over when it's scared and you won't believe what a "fix-er-up" two-story, turn-of-the-century Victorian is going for. You can spend all day drinking Old Milwaukee and playing washers and no one will make fun of you at all.

quatchi: A teacher utilizing his third grade class's letter writing campaign to help overturn the ordinance making chicken raising illegal is one of those grey areas.

Depends on who put forth the idea of letter writing. The teacher taught them about chickens and almost assuredly mentioned the law, but I have no issue if one of the students began the civil action idea. Leading them to do this is alright, but telling them to start a letter writing campaign or otherwise urge the city council to overturn the law is inappropriate.

Ambivalence: Yes, because teaching future voters any kind of public advocacy skills is evil.

Since it's chickens, I'd have to agree with subby on this one. This is definitely evil.

Of course, because this sort of thing would *never* happen in a private school, right?

This kid should be able to identify and throw rocks at the gays at his age.

Yet, he's still farking with chickens.

RoyBatty: I want a hedgehog. And it's 100% legal where I live to own one, but you need a permit, and the non-elected officials at Fish and Game refuse to issue the permits they have the legal mandate to issue.

So the elected representatives say sure, but they are overruled by non-elected bureaucrats.

I understand the non-elected bureaucrats probably have legitimate concerns, but I think the way it is handled with a bureaucratic veto is repellent and obnoxious and not conducive to good government or representative democracy.

Anyway I want a hedgehog.

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Why won't they give you a hedgehog? Is it because under "Purpose for license" you wrote: "Non-sexual. No really, non-sexual. I swear, I'll even take a lie detector test."

MayoSlather: Sounds like the kids made quite the coup for these chickens.

"Coup" is pronounced "coo" and this about chickens, not doves.

BarkingUnicorn: MayoSlather: Sounds like the kids made quite the coup for these chickens.

"Coup" is pronounced "coo" and this about chickens, not doves.

Chickens can't spell.

I am outraged at this pro-chicken agenda being pushed in taxpayer funded schools. What's next, biology? RON PAUL

Subby here. Thanks to those who noticed my "Amusing" tag.

Also, thanks to those who didn't, for the giggles you gave me. :)

Actually, I do believe this a relatively benign but very blatant example of how teachers can abuse their influence over kids. The teacher raises chickens, so we can assume he's a chicken fan. He taught the students selective information: chickens can feed other students, but there's no mention of roosters and chicken smells. He "said he had his students write letters to urge council members to approve chicken-raising."

Had he left the topic of a letter-writing campaign entirely to the third-graders, I doubt they would have come up with chickens. It's evident to me that the teacher manipulated these kids to further his own agenda.

Of course, it could have happened in a private school, too. But it didn't.

I think the city council should have responded with its own letter outlining the reasons for the chicken ban, and just told the kids "No. Better luck next time."

Backyard gardening and chicken raising is spreading like crazy, even close around Boston. We've been vegetable gardening for a few years now, and the yield you can get from a small yard is amazing. The quality of the produce is far beyond what you get at the market, and you don't have to pay the obscene prices for organic produce at Whole Foods. We're working on our town to allow hens. Fresh eggs from the backyard every morning would be wonderful.

No matter what all of the experts want us to do about the economy, Americans are getting smarter with their money. The crazy drunken spending on credit days are over, adjust to the new reality.

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