The third debate in a decade over backyard chickens in London, Ont., appears to be the shortest yet. Members of the Community and Protective Services (CAPS) committee spent less than five minutes discussing the matter on Tuesday before voting unanimously to take no further action.
The push to renew the debate came from Londoner Sean Eden, who sent a letter to the committee requesting that the city launch a one-year pilot project to allow citizens to raise their own chickens — not roosters — “in order to secure a supply of eggs and hens for their own consumption.” In his letter to the CAPS committee, Eden cited various media reports on threats to food security resulting from the novel coronavirus pandemic and also argued that newly-formed