[quote=“SmashMartian, post:32, topic:40446”]
Not sure why local ordinances ban them.
[/quote]Racist laws, can’t ban po black folk but you can ban things that whites in the 50s associated with them.
Same as illegalizing homelessness laws banning public sleep, sitting, or other normal human activities.
This is why so many comments in the ‘white’ hip part of town know about keeping chickens without police harassment. ‘Good’ people get a pass for most targeted laws intended for the undesirable.
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Wow. Just wow - you really didn’t do your research before making that claim.
In the late 1950s, in Los Angeles, my mom (who is white, but was living in a black neighborhood) kept a chicken as a part of Young Farmers of America. At the time, there were people (both black and white) grazing sheep and goats at the top of the hill on La Cienega.
The sheep and goats have since been outlawed in some areas, because the city has become more congested with people, and those areas there’s really no room for people to keep that kind of farm animal. However, it’s still legal in almost all of Los Angeles to keep a chicken BUT you have to have the space to do so (for the benefit of the animal(s) and human(s) in residence). In L.A. City, “chickens must be kept at least 20 feet from the owner’s residence and 35 feet from neighboring residences. Roosters must be kept at least 100 feet away.” In other words, most places can’t have a rooster at all, and noise ordinances will come into play if the rooster is too loud. Chickens require an enclosed yard - they always did.
About those sheep and goats: here’s a pic of some sheep living (legally) in a backyard in Silverlake. As the article mentions, there are also goats employed in trimming the grass at Angel’s Knoll (they get shipped in). So some people do still have large enough properties to house animals, but in urban areas, space is tight, and farm animals won’t be found as often. Even to keep a dog, you have to be able to feed, water, and house it properly. It’s harder to do that for some livestock.
P.S. Here’s a link to what urban agriculture is and isn’t generally allowed in the various areas of L.A.
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I believe the penalty for jaywalking is four bullets!
Very well I will accept your claim that cherry picked jurisdiction did not enact this type of law for racist or classist reasons(but are we really supposed to believe that LA was clean of even a single racist targeting law in the 50s?!?), how do you explain the majority of locations where it was enacted because of the designated dirty people? Often a directed attack law is formulated to appeal to health and safety in order to stand up in court, but the initiative behind even drafting the law was to drive out the XXX people and their filthy chickens, it is then mostly used by police as intended to harass the intended victim populations, not to save the chickens of LA County from a life far better than any battery chicken could imagine.
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