Reply to Backyard chickens-who has them and do your neighbors care?

Forum Index » Lawn and Garden

Reply to "Backyard chickens-who has them and do your neighbors care?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
I want chickens (a few hens) very much but it isn't legal in my town.  The city council hearing on backyard poultry was full of the same kind of foolishness displayed here "we used to be rural and poor, but now we are well off and suburban, and chickens would make us LOOK poor."  And one councilwoman saying "yuck.  I don't want to know where my food comes from."  At the same time the town is trying to promote itself as a hip, artsy, no-car-needed town close to DC.  If you can't keep up with the trends (ie urban homesteading) you aren't going to attract the young and hip.  Who, by the way, have chickens.[/quote]

Then I don't want young and hip in my neighborhood. Jeez.

Seriously, I mean, [b]we're[/b] not a developing nation, you know? I don't understand why [b]"hip" people[/b] think it's ok to fetishize poverty. Talk about offensive.[/quote]

OP here. You don't get out much, do you? In case you haven't read the last 6 pages or so of this thread (and I can't blame you if you didn't) I'm by no means a youngster, hip, or poor and it's funny to hear your descriptors for whatever you have made up in your head chicken owners to be. It sounds like your reference to a developing nation really shows me that YOU are in fact on the defensive. I hear you saying you do not approve of a well off person taking care of animals ONLY poor people do that and if they can't stay in their confined "labels" that bothers you? That's how I'm reading into that one.

And I'm not talking about "we" here I'm talking about "me" so do what you like in your backyard, ok then?

And for the chicken owners I know in Bethesda, I think they are far from "fetishizing poverty". Get a clue. I suppose it's ok to go to the store to buy and eat eggs or chicken as long as you don't have to see them. That would just be horrific. Maybe just the worst thing to happen around Montgomery County.  :roll: [/quote]

[b]I get out plenty.[/b] I've seen countries where chickens are kept by impoverished people. I'm guessing you haven't had that privilege, [b]or you wouldn't think this was so cool.[/b]

The "hip" comment was directly responsive to the pp. I know full well you're not hip. [/quote]

OP here. Then it's even more ridiculous you could compare the two.

You are assuming you know what I think and you would be wrong.

Judging by the way your answering on this thread I'm feeling more "hip" every second.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics