Comments on: City Council rejects chickens

By: Isobel Shaw

Isobel Shaw — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:56:44 +0000

Colon cancer can be avoided if you just keep high fiber foods in your diet.,*;

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By: Lowell Fulk

Lowell Fulk — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:48:48 +0000

Great idea Deb! I like the idea of a “chicken exchange rate”! Think about the musical with Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, and Charles Durning. Chickens can be bartered for many different goods and services.

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By: Deb SF

Deb SF — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:34:33 +0000

CHICKENS! We need to revisit the local CHICKENS debate as a way to control health care costs.

You may have heard about the chickens for check-ups story, where Sue Lowden (R), the leading Republican Senate candidate in Nevada, explained her views about cost control in health care. “You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days, our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor..go ahead and barter with your doctor.” It would, she insisted, “get get prices down in a hurry.”

well, this site http://lowdenplan.com/ gives a conversion calculator to tell you how many chickens it will cost for a given medical procedure. A flu shot, for example, costs 5 chickens. Treatment of colon cancer costs 8,738 chickens, but a colonoscopy only costs 514. No one will ever again doubt the value of preventive medicine.

It is the duty of our city council members to immediately revisit the chicken issue in order to help local citizenry control our health care costs.

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By: Lowell Fulk

Lowell Fulk — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:17:46 +0000

Why don’t you explain “death panel” Dave?

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By: Dave Briggman

Dave Briggman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:04:56 +0000

Yeah, Scott, just like the removal of the death panels from H.R. 3200 was also fictional.

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By: David Miller

David Miller — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:41:53 +0000

Don’t worry Scott, the posting was almost as obviously fictional as supposed death panels, though I’m sure that some will mistake it for truth also.

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By: Scott Rogers

Scott Rogers — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:24:46 +0000

My apologies! :) The tenant was sending the above e-mail as a joke to the leasing agent — I thought that would be evident when I posted it here, but it was not. There are not, in fact, any known cases of backyard chickens being raised in as back-bedroom chickens at Urban Exchange. :)

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By: Emmy

Emmy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:10:56 +0000

Oh goodness.

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By: David Miller

David Miller — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:01:35 +0000

If someone is paying a premium for an apt in UE and raising chickens in said posh apt, maybe their mental health should be checked into.

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