Editor:
Re: Keep poultry where it belongs, letter to the editor, Aug. 5
I couldn't agree with David Batchelor more whole-heartedly.
Farming in Tsawwassen is definitely not appropriate! Keep poultry where it belongs - in factory farms where daylight is scarce and antibiotics are plentiful. That's good, right?
And since backyard chickens attract crows that are noisy in the mornings, I would like to also ban the family of bald eagles that wake me every morning across the street in the trees as they feed and protect their young. Perhaps we should clear cut the trees? Children are noisy - ban them too.
As a responsible consumer, I think we all need to procure our eggs where they naturally come from ... big box retailers, of course. Soon Tsawwassenites can realize their dream when a Walmart is built along Highway 17. Utopia at last.
No rats in Tsawwassen until days after the friend's neighbour got their chickens? Must be a different Tsawwassen.
Is Batchelor serious?
If this is the biggest issue that motivates one to write a letter to the editor, maybe some bigger issues should be considered?
How about Deltaport expansion, South Fraser Perimeter Road, loss of farmland forever, construction of an incinerator, big box retailers in our back yard... I am afraid to find out what is next for Tsawwassen.
Perhaps we should ban electric cars, solar power, wind power and any other green initiatives in case they offend someone.
I am not a radical; I am a conservative that should be doing more.
We should be congratulating Vancouver for its four chicken initiative for the good that it does.
The rest of the world is more progressive than Tsawwassenites are with respect to being green.
Roman Stoiber
