Dear Editor:
Re: Should City Workers be Allowed to Clean Our Yards, May 26 Inquiring Reporter.
I just came across a North Shore News interview of five North Shore residents asking them if they would favour city workers being authorized to enter private property to clean up bear attractants (dirty barbecues, fruit trees, garbage, etc.) if the homeowner fails to do so.
Would this not be an amazing contradiction? On the one hand this proposal, on the other hand the recent proposal to permit backyard chickens in the District of North Vancouver! With the chickens themselves, chicken manure and chicken feed, perhaps this would be the greatest bear attractant of all, meaning more dead bears and risk to pets and humans.
Did you ever read the reasons given to have backyard chickens? Some are sheer nonsense.
Firstly, to teach our children where food comes from. Well, eggs only, since you will be forbidden to kill the chickens. Skip the chickens, and take your kids to Maplewood Farm and see many types of animals.
Secondly, to increase food security on the North Shore and save food trucking and fuel. Reducing global warming. It is guesstimated 20 families (six chickens maximum each) might take chickens, or roughly 120 eggs a day. The effect on food security and trucking is negligible.
Please keep city workers (except in serious cases) and chickens out of our backyards.
Monica Hunter
North Vancouver
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