Those crazy Nova Scotians:


An Act to Prohibit the Display or Sale
of Artificially Coloured Living Chickens
Short title

1 This Act may be cited as the Baby Chick Protection Act. R.S., c. 29, s. 1.

Offence and penalty

2 Every person who displays, sells, barters, gives or offers to sell, barter or give a living chicken under two months of age that has been dyed, coloured or otherwise treated so as to impart to it an artificial colour is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for not more than thirty days or to both. R. S., c. 29, s. 2.

lol.
You know that the hidden "taxes" on milk products are something like over 200%.. good old milk board.:P
There are all kinds of weird agricultural laws floating around in Canada.
I believe there is a bylaw in edmonton still on the books concerning keeping livestock in your yard.

this is the pinoy's answer to that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_%28egg%29

Chicken, egg and dairy farmers are very protective. They have money to lobby and force police to enforce crazy regs.

A couple of people I know were on the front page of a small NS town because they were keeping hens in their yard and were breaking the law. The bylaw says the cages have to be a certain distance from property lines - a distance much larger than most backyards can accomodate.

that is kind of crazy lol

martian: Crazy to think that dairy farmers not only earn the highest income, along with chicken and eggers, but on top they also build huge equity in their quota on everyone else's dime. They need huge income to justify buying 25k$ worth of quote just to support the product of 1 cow but in the end it ends up being like a mortgage that gets paid off and you're left with a hugely valuable asset.

Which came first, the egg or the government subsidy?