Chapel Hill-Carrboro farm tour may put off chicken slaughter

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"Organic farmers, who are not permitted to use powerful synthetic fungicides like chlorothalonil, have very few weapons against this aggressive pathogen."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/nyregion/18tomatoes.html?_r=1&hp

This sounds like a bad disease. Looks like the organic farmers are out of luck!

"Would you hold a pork barbecue in a Jewish or Islamic neighborhood?" You damn right I would. I don't eat goat and the people groups you mention have no problem slitting a goats throat in their back yard. This is America honey! I catch and eat fish and I also hunt and eat deer, duck, goose and squirrel. My 4 year year old daughter loves fresh venison and even asked her uncle for a big buck for her 4th birthday. It's a chicken people. Pull off it's head and start pluckin'. The body may flap around for a while but it feels no pain once you pull the head off. And to Gina "it may lead to slaughter of other animals kept for food." If the "other animals" are "kept" for food....how do you eat them if you don't kill them? Go talk to some plants...I hear they have feelings too!

Hundreds of people came out today. Families with children of all ages toured local gardens, and learned about raising bees and livestock. I think it was wise to reconsider the slaughter in this particular context. Children under the age of 9, who have not been raised on a farm do not need to see a chicken slaughtered. Anyone who has any expertise in environmental education will attest to this.
Compromising with people who disagree with you does not mean that you are not a "real" farmer. It only means that you are a considerate person.

So one citizen raised oppositional concerns about killing a few chickens to teach local folks how it's done & that was enough to cause it to be canceled? Did the Board of Alderman all fall in behind Joal Broun's bureaucratic & abstract concern that preparing a few chickens for cooking may not meet health government regulations? (Turns out it did by a long shot...) In the midst of a flood of questionnable meat products in the day-to-day food system, is this really a real issue for local government?

 I'm sensitive to killing animals & I'm worried about the way we treat food production in this country. Actually, I'm more than worried about it. I know that corporate ag-business causes undue pain & torture for animals and results in sickness & death on occasion for consumers. And their products are on shelves throughout Carrboro.

 My family raises our own chickens & kills the roosters for meat. We also kill them for peace & quiet (roosters will often beat the dawn by several hours with their crowing), as well as to give the hens a little respite from the aggressive humping of the roosters. There has been a very healthy movement toward urban chicken raising. It's a great idea - you get eggs, you get really good fertilizer (it's "cold" fertilizer which means you can apply it immediately), you get entertainment (I was at Johnny's in Carrboro this evening and overheard someone say happily, upon spying a free-range chicken, that "this is the closest I've ever been to a chicken"), and you get meat. Obviously, you have to kill the chicken (am I really saying this??) to get the meat.

This is permaculture at it's best. The Carrboro Greenspace Collective clearly understands this. I wish they had taken advantage of this "teachable moment" and done what people have done for thousands of years - respectfully kill a few animals as part of the web of life.

Did one person (and a sensational story from the Chapel Hill News) really derail this normal and educational event?

Have Sarah Palin kill the chickens, and have Nancy Pelosi make a nice batch of Socialist Tofu.

There you go! Problem solved. Thanks, Jerry!

Y'all are missing some important considerations in this discussion. If anyone wants to go to a farm or a slaughterhouse to see where their meat comes from, good for them! If urban farmers want to kill and eat one of their chickens, I hope they'll be skillful and merciful. But this is a proposal to kill animals in the heart of town on a pretty September day, when a whole lot of people who want to support our wonderful local co-op or just take the kids out for ice cream will be passing by, and many of them, for whatever reason, will not want to be party to this event.

And yes, it's Carrboro. Thousands of vegetarians and vegans, thoughtful people who have made a decision not to harm animals and guide every day of their lives by that decison, live in Carrboro or shop at Weaver Street Market, right across the street from the proposed killing. This choice of venue for the slaughter is incredibly tacky, to say the least. Would you hold a pork barbecue in a Jewish or Islamic neighborhood?

You may not agree with vegetarians and vegans, but it would be decent of you to respect them. You may dismiss Carrboro as a silly place, but if so you're missing out on a lot of interesting and important people and principles, and a great deal of beauty.

Killing chickens for food has been normal for thousands of years. People should be more familiar with where their food comes from.

The fact that this is even an issue reveals how disconnected people are from their food supply.

Plus people will have a new understanding of the phrase "running around like a chicken with it's head cut off." It has to be seen to be believed.