A Chance to Feed the Hungry & Save a Canadian Breed
On the eve of Expo 67, Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau passed a law that forbid the raising, breeding, slaughtering and butchering of poultry and game in the city. The law was passed without public consultation, one of Drapeau's many efforts to "clean up" Montreal in preparation for both the 1967 World Fair and the 1976 Olympics. While some people in Montreal were relieved to see the animals go, others "would denounce the loss to food autonomy, an interference in individual and collective freedoms and a blind generalization of the relationship between humans and animals in an urban setting."
Montreal could see the reintroduction of laying hens in 2011. The borough of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie is in the process of studying the possibility of allowing citizens to raise laying hens in their gardens, and hopes to launch a pilot project for the spring of 2011. Other boroughs could soon follow their lead and also begin allowing citizens to raise chickens.
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1 comment:
Hurray for the hens! Does this mean you're going to join the rest of your chicken farmer friends down south?
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