After
reading an article, “Urban farms with slaughterhouses not suitable for single
family zoning,” by the Editorial Board at the Austin
American Statesman, I was left on the fence line about in that I agree with
most, but not all of the authors’ side. When it comes down to the current urban
farms ordinance that states urban farms can raise chickens, one would assume
that if you are raising chickens, there will come a day when you are to
slaughter and clean the chickens in an effort to be self sustainable. However,
the lack of specification of restrictions, (or lack there of) in the current
ordinance seems mindless in my opinion.
In specifying that slaughter houses be permitted in the
ordinance, so long as restrictions are specified as well would indeed be an
improvement and the thought of The Planning commission standing deaf to the objections
of homeowners is wrong and needs to be addressed. Is The planning commission to
simply out rule any slaughtering of chickens in residential neighborhoods? Not
without a strong wave of opinion from the other side. Do we as individuals not
have the right to raise and grow our own food? To know where and how it was
raised?
I do however agree with the Editorial Board in that “a
commercial slaughterhouse goes too far.” I say , though, commercial slaughterhouse. As far as
slaughtering and cleaning chickens that an individual has raised on his own
farm, it’s all part of self-sustainability. But what is sustainable about a
commercial “urban” slaughterhouse?
“a commercial slaughterhouse goes
too far.”
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