Vancouver City Council Legalizes Backyard Hens
Vancouver City Council voted unanimously on Thursday to legalize backyard chickens, as an important part of a sustainable food system for the city.
What is really shocking to me in the media report here is the strong dissent by the Vancouver Humane Society, citing concerns of neglect. Do they have absolutely no concept of how chickens are treated on factory farms???
I couldn’t have said it better than Dane Chauvel in Vancouver:
“If you were a chicken you would be imploring the animals rights activists and the city council to approve this bylaw, because it’s the best thing that can happen in terms of chicken welfare,” he said.
“Any resident that has two to four chickens, that means two to four chickens less in a battery cage environment.”
Here are the details of the Motion: