| # | Full Name | Comments |
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| 201 | sandy adler | |
| 202 | Sarah Climenhaga | Please allow the responsible keeping of backyard chickens.
Thanks. |
| 203 | Anonymous | |
| 204 | lsa varano | |
| 205 | Alan Shisko | |
| 206 | Alicia Mah | |
| 207 | Junyee Wang | |
| 208 | Stephanie Brown | |
| 209 | Andy Ni | |
| 210 | Selene Quinn | |
| 211 | George Ivanoff | I think it is a great idea for people to be allowed to have a small garden and a few chickens in their yards. HOW CAN IT NOT BE?
Please modify the CIty's bylaws to allow a small number of chickens to be raised by people in the city, as they do in many other cities around the world. |
| 212 | Anonymous | go chickens go! |
| 213 | r.madill | People who dont want this to happen or are uninformed or have a vested interest. |
| 214 | Peter John Poulos | Good Luck! |
| 215 | J. Hamer | My wife was raised on a medium sized farm in Pennsylvania and I spent alot of time in Kensington Mkt. when I was growing up and we have no idea why people cannot raise 2 or 3 chickens for food or eggs. Give it time, maybe the bylaw will change like the outdoor clothes line did. Good luck. |
| 216 | Kathy Poulos | Keep cluckin'!! |
| 217 | Cara McLeod | this is precicely why if you ask a city person where you you get your eggs..they will say the grocery store..actually they come from chickens. With the amount of processing and cruelty and god knows what else goes on with the chickens that mass produce eggs for grocery stores, it is not wonder that people prefer their own backyard chickens to lay eggs. Crack an egg from a free chicken and one from the grocery store and you will see that the one from the grocery store is very pale in color..lacking nutirents. If people want to feed themselves by caring for thier own animals then they should have that right. |
| 218 | Betty Poulos | I love chickens... And I love to eat chickens!!! |
| 219 | Nicole Coward | |
| 220 | Anonymous | |
| 221 | Angyal, Eva | I think chickens should be allowed -in the city of Toronto-in limited numbers depending on the size of backyards. |
| 222 | J hongoh | |
| 223 | Carl Keast | |
| 224 | Stephanie Salmons | |
| 225 | Dana Ginsberg | I love chickens! Can we visit your hens? |
| 226 | ivor gwinnutt | |
| 227 | Anonymous | |
| 228 | David Hildebrandt | |
| 229 | Anonymous | Would love to have chickens in my backyard. Love the idea of fresh, organic, free range eggs for our three children and us. And the idea of making our children more aware of where our eggs are coming from. |
| 230 | Natalia Pravko | |
| 231 | alison cumbaa | |
| 232 | Anonymous | I would love to be able to keep
some chickens in my backyard
and I know my children would
greatly enjoy it |
| 233 | Malcolm Avey | |
| 234 | Maggie Bliss | I feel chickens in the cities are a MUST! Nobody said you have to have a rooster, or other loud birds.
Take Seattle for example....3 chickens allowed, enough for a family in general sure! If you have more land, you can apply to have more.
There are soooo many benefits to have urban agriculture is almost insane NOT to have them allowed. Bylaws and restrictions sure, but bans no way. Very Silly on a city councils part to disallow them. They are NOT loud, they are NOT smelly...just to name two things. Read "There a Chicken in my Backyard" for starts. Food sustainability begins with the people being "allowed" to grow their own food! |
| 235 | Didi | support + best of luck =] |
| 236 | terra presotto | |
| 237 | Shawn Conway | |
| 238 | Catherine | |
| 239 | terra presotto | |
| 240 | Harris Ivens | Better lawns, enhanced food security, better health, better connections to truly local food and best of all the most delicious eggs one can consume! |
| 241 | Anonymous | I do believe there is nothing harmful or annoying with someone having a few hens . If kept clean . They are far less noisy then a dog and won't bite . We should be applauding people wanting to help themselves . |
| 242 | Sue Joyce | We should be doing everything we can to reduce the load on our fragile food distribution system. We also could totally benefit from a closer connection to our food sources. As the largest city in Canada, Toronto needs to be a leader in self-sustaining urban living. |
| 243 | Lloyd Helferty | I don't live in Toronto, but I sure would love to see Toronto setting a precedent that could be duplicated across the Province. |
| 244 | kyla | plus then you dont have to drive to the grocery store, and the trucks dont have to drive from the farms! reduces pollution all-round. |
| 245 | Stephanie | |
| 246 | Anonymous | |
| 247 | Anonymous | Every time I buy my imported-from-USA organic free range eggs at the supermarket I wish I had a healthy local alternative. We have friends in England who have always kept chickens with no difficultiy, despite living in a city environment, and I do not think Toronto should ban its residents from doing the same responsibly, and on a small scale as long as it is not bothersome to neighbours. I agree heartily with all of the reasons listed on the petition, and I hope Toronto councillors will reconsider the city's position on allowing chickens for egg production. |
| 248 | Anonymous | Please allow responsible small scale farming in Toronto |
| 249 | Geoff Whittington | Chickens are a right. |
| 250 | Andrew Choi | I support any initiative to grow food locally and organically. |