The Midway of St. Paul is the centerpoint of the new rail corridor between Mpls and St.Paul, that has been talked and dreamed of since 1970 or so. The notion of raising chickens midst the high density Midway by an organization called "Eco-Education" is a real story and not fiction, and the response by the City of St.Paul to allow this unless there are complaints is not to be considered a role model for my dear readers. Yes. I know we have many unused chicken coops in our fair city, and I know that at $1.75 per dozen eggs, with the prospect of it hitting $10 at the current rate of inflation the idea of every home having a chicken coop is attrative to some---relax.....I am not suggesting it.
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Had you read the article carefully, you would have noticed that actions of an Eco Education employee on her own time had nothing to do with the organization whatsoever. Even Mr. Soucheray got that right in his ill-researched column.
ReplyDeleteAs for the "idea" of raising chickens in St. Paul, it is nothing new - chickens have been continuously (and legally) raised inside the city since before it was incorporated - and apparently without much squawking.
There are few places on Earth where raising a few chickens for eggs in one's yard is seen as unnatural. Perhaps if more people were familiar with how chickens are raised for egg production in the US, they would recognize that system as unnatural.