| # | Full Name | Comments |
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| 51 | Anonymous | |
| 52 | Helen Mills | |
| 53 | lynn bishop | everyone should have the right to produce delicious natural eggs.. chickens take up little space and energy. They are quiet and fun to watch...please update the bylaw. |
| 54 | Anonymous | |
| 55 | Paul Hoepfner-Homme | |
| 56 | John DeLuca-Howard | This is ridiculous! The benefits of raising your own livestock when you have room, especially in these times when food shortages are looming, are enormous. The small minded alarmists who seem to think that anything natural is dirty, and therefore unhealthy, and that people can't be trusted to look after their own needs themselves, are clearly in possession of the ear of government. That is why we must allow the citizenry to take action for their own benefit. Real free-enterprise, local, self-sufficient, and cost-effective. We need it now. |
| 57 | Genevieve Trickey | |
| 58 | Nora Saks | |
| 59 | Stephen James Kerr | This is the future - if we even have one. Every one of us is going to have to become much closer to our means of subsistence in the very near future. Peak oil + climate change + the food / energy export crisis + the decline of industrialism are going to mean we need to raise more and more of our own food, and reclaim the power we once had over our own lives and destinies. Raising your own food is a radical act of resistance, one that I totally support!
See cookingwithoutcarbon.blogspot.com
I want to start with laying hens. How do I get started? |
| 60 | Colette murphy | I long for my own eggs, for my natural imsect control too. Please change our by-law to allow chickens in our own backyards. Toronto needs to become a leader in the Urban Agriculture movement.
Thank you,
Colette |
| 61 | Suzanne Young | It's about time Toronto become a leader in reducing waste and finding new ways of sustaining ourselves. Chickens are a great way of doing both of these things. |
| 62 | Anonymous | |
| 63 | Charles Gardner | Hens are perfectly quite (its the roosters that make all the noise) and I thing it make perfect sense to have an animal that serves several functional purposes and leaves very little in the way of mess compared to other domesticated animals commonly found in the city.
I hope you can support my reasoning and change the municipal code banning backyard chicken. |
| 64 | Ansley Simpson | |
| 65 | Jason Brown | |
| 66 | Leslie Toy | |
| 67 | Rachel Climenhaga | I strongly support an amendment to Toronto's bylaws to allow citizens to responsibly keep backyard chickens. |
| 68 | David Anderson | When I first came to Toronto in 1975 I was pleased and surprised to hear the crowing of a rooster from a neighbour's yard close to me. My own family did the same in Edmonton. I'm glad to see people seeing the wisdom of this long-standing practice of providing food in a environmentally smart way. |
| 69 | Anne Shadick | If pigeons are allowed why not chickens!
With so much talk about the importance of eating local food, why is Toronto standing in the way of people keeping a few chickens. |
| 70 | Tina Pittaway | |
| 71 | Lianne Brackett | I'd love to be able to use eggs and not worry about feeding antibiotics, hormones or pesticides to my family. Buying organic is pricey, and you can't always trust the label. In the growing oil shortage, we will need to be more self sustainable, as shipping food in will become even more costly... preventing people from doing this is environmentally irresponsible and fundamentally wasteful. |
| 72 | Anonymous | |
| 73 | Kimberley Fry | I would love to have chickens in Toronto. Seems crucial to start thinking about food security in the city. |
| 74 | Matthew Middleton | With the looming food crisis, this and other Urban Agricultural initiatives should be given very serious consideration. |
| 75 | Kat Tancock | |
| 76 | Colleen Tully | |
| 77 | Jennifer Parker | |
| 78 | Carl Leslie | While it is an overstatement to say that "Chickens have existed in cities since the dawn of time," I nevertheless agree that the City of Toronto should "permit the responsible keeping of backyard chickens." |
| 79 | Siobhan NiLoughlin | |
| 80 | K Toms | |
| 81 | Axel Johnston | |
| 82 | Anonymous | |
| 83 | Carol Witt | |
| 84 | Jeff Witt | Any easement should be proximity to neighbors' buildings, not proximity to their lots. |
| 85 | Anais Fritzlan | |
| 86 | Cherie Thomas- wood | I see nothing wrong with having chicken's and applaud anyone who does!! |
| 87 | Anonymous | |
| 88 | Anonymous | |
| 89 | Anonymous | we need sustainable agriculture- reducing the distance our food travels is important |
| 90 | Sally | Having chickens in the yard, veggies and fruit bearing trees, is not only natural and intended by 'God', it is the natural order of things. Governments have tried to take away what Nature has given us and in it's place has given us a replica of the real thing. By not allowing us to be 'free' to live as nature intended, we've become so frustrated as people that we see the evidence in the news. When governments get involved with nature in a negative way (as they have by allowing the cutting down of trees, polluting the waters and allowing industry to continue to make plastic, styrofoam etc...) by injecting our chickens with Nicarbazin (?) and then claim it is safe for human consumption,,, My final comment is that I will not consume another chicken unless I raise it myself. Thank you for your interest in changing the law to allow ordinary people to take care of their own food choices by raising their food in their own yards. |
| 91 | Anonymous | just makes sense considering the environmental push the city is claiming as a priority. |
| 92 | Lee Ringer | Have a large north Toronto yard, compost for bird waste and want to raise my own eggs. |
| 93 | Joe Cargnelli | |
| 94 | Anonymous | |
| 95 | Anonymous | Bring on the chickens. |
| 96 | Mike Walker | Chickens for a greener earth! |
| 97 | Anonymous | We should have the right. |
| 98 | Gregg Shaw | I would like to raise chickens in my yard - a semi-detached house near the Danforth |
| 99 | Sheena Sharp | My cousins in Fort Collins, Colorado, kept chickens in their backyard, and I spent a week there once. The chickens were great, facinating to watch, and the omlettes were good. One was called mellow yellow ... |
| 100 | mark marcello | great idea , whose time has come again. |