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[permaculture] Homegrown Evolution blog on the ethics of raising chickens - Boing Boing

From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
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Subject: [permaculture] Homegrown Evolution blog on the ethics of raising chickens - Boing Boing
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:06:47 -0400

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Homegrown Evolution blog on the ethics of raising chickens
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, July 29, 2008 3:26 PM | permalink
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On his blog, Erik Knutzen, co-author of the terrific self-sufficiency
guidebook,
The Urban Homestead,
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/23/the-urban-homestead.html
writes about the ethics of raising chickens in the backyard for eggs.

Eric pointed to "Why I Farm,"
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/2007-02-01/Why-I-Farm.aspx
a Mother Earth News essay by Bryan Welch, with this provocative quote:

I get a lot of laughs watching my animals figure out their lives and I get pretty sad when it’s time to kill them. I have a lot more death in my life than I did before. And, ironically, that’s part of the reason why I feel like I have a lot more life in my life. That’s why I farm."

Both Erik's blog post and Welch's essay are worth reading for anyone thinking about raising livestock at home. I'm almost finished with my backyard chicken coop,
http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/search/label/chickens
so this was especially interesting to me.
An Omnivore's Dilemma (Homegrown Evolution)
http://www.homegrownevolution.com/2008/07/omnivores-dilemma.html

[permaculture] Homegrown Evolution blog on the ethics of raising chickens - Boing Boing, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 07/29/2008