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Southwest Side Alderman Lona Lane (18th) isn't feeling like chicken tonight, chicken tonight. She's introduced an ordinance to amend a four-year-old pigeon ban to include chickens. The ordinance would make it a crime to "import, sell, own, keep or otherwise possess any live chicken" in a district zoned for residential use. It would also require a separate food establishment license for those who want to slaughter chickens.
"I was alerted that some of the people are cutting their heads off in some kind of ritual, letting them run around, then dumping them in hot water, plucking their feathers and cooking them," Lane told the Sun-Times. "They're throwing carcasses in the garbage."
We've seen the fate that can become some of these chickens, and it isn't a particularly happy one, but at the same time, does this really require a ban on all chickens? After all, chickens can make great pets and the urban ones are especially hip these days. In light of the fact that Lane's staff "could not immediately identify either neighbors who had complained about pet chickens or the residents accused of keeping them," this all just sounds like a lot of needless squawking to us.
Image via Backyard Chicken.
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If this includes roosters, I'm all for it!
hmmm, our mass transit is bankrupt, our budget is in the red, we have several cop corruption scandals, a hiring scandal as well as a voting scandal, but you know what I think I should pass a law on?
Chickens.
I support this; however, I'd first like to see a panda ban.
Poor chickens.
But Santeria is a religion...
Whatever happened to Chicken Tonight anyway? The cacciatore was decent enough.
oh my gosh! i live at north ave & hoyne and last weekend there was a decapitated chicken in my alley. it was the most disturbing thing i've seen in awhile. i would have laughed at this before but after seeing what i saw, I SUPPORT THE BAN!
"I was alerted that some of the people are cutting their heads off in some kind of ritual, letting them run around, then dumping them in hot water, plucking their feathers and cooking them," Lane told the Sun-Times. "They're throwing carcasses in the garbage."
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Ritual?? I grew up in a rural area and we raised chickens for our own personal needs. We also killed them ourselves exactly as described above. This is the most humane way to kill a chicken. Of course it will run around because they have very strong muscle spasms after the head has been chopped off. I guess city-folk don't like to think about where their meal came from. :o)
I'm sure that those chickens were treated much more humanely than the thousands raised and slaughtered in factory farms...
"They're throwing carcasses in the garbage."
Um, so what do people do with the carcasses of roasting chickens they buy at Jewel, turn them into lamps?