Urban Chickens

March 19, 2009

Via BoingBoing. I know you’re expecting me to write some trenchant commentary on the animal rights side of this issue. But, as somebody who’s done the inner-city thing and lived within earshot of roosters, permit me to state the obvious: anyone who would bring a bunch of crowing roosters into an already-noisy, densely populated urban environment is a dickhead of biblical proportions.

Since this story pushes too many of my buttons for me to write a passably good analysis, here’s a great comment left by a boingboing reader:

This is really good news that people are starting to bring the primary vectors for for diseases like HN51 into some of the densest centers of human habitation in this country. We are the masters of our own destruction…

Link.

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