The European towns that give away free chickens
www.bbc.com
Towns in France and Belgium have been giving out free chickens for years to combat food waste – could the idea catch on elsewhere?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/35963783

To date, 5,282 hens have been distributed to residents, and not only have the residents received a plentiful supply of free eggs, but food waste has also been averted from landfill as chickens are fed kitchen scraps which would otherwise be thrown away.

  • Beastimus@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This is epic both from a sustainability and animal rights perspective. I’ve worked in an industrial chicken house (though mine was meat) and any situation where a family is taking care of the chicken (especially in the large space requirement they marked out) is approximately a billion times better. I particularly would like to have chickens at some point, though with the insanity that is the US, I would actually not be allowed to keep one at all in most neighborhoods I’m likely to live in. Edit: Its possibly relevant to say that I’ve also raised chickens (both egg and meat) in a non-industrial setting.