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It’s time to start counting chickens

@bonecouch: “but without the profit motive people won’t work” [Archive] We need to talk about how cities will have to re-orient our infrastructure around community agriculture and animal husbandry, incorporating the knowledge that many immigrant groups and the poorest rural people already have. As it is, our food comes from far away, is produced at […]

May 3, 2021

Tumblr @deadmomjokes Y’all, I’m over here DYING cuz Google suggested me this article about the crisis of backyard chicken keepers– which is that they love having chickens so much that they keep getting more, and then don’t know what to do with all the eggs. Which I can see how this would be a problem, but it’s just so funny to me because they had interviewed this one guy who started off with 3 chickens, and then kept adding more and more, and eventually started donating the eggs to a local food bank, and at the end of the year when they wrote him a tax receipt, he discovered he’d donated over 400 dozen eggs. Seriously, it was a whole article talking very seriously about how people are so into chickens that they just keep collecting them like pokemon and then have to “scramble” (their words not mine) to get rid of the eggs, because they weren’t even thinking of egg production, they just loved having chickens. And while I may be over here laughing a bit too hard, honestly? Big Mood. @bonecouch “but without the profit motive people won’t work”

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