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ART: Eldorado's 'Funky Chicken Fuster Cluck'

Nonprofit Hensforth unleashes pro-chicken artwork.

By Joey Peters
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 Local nonprofit Hensforth, an organization set up to raise money for the chicken-loving homeowners being sued by the Eldorado Community Improvement Association, recently dropped some pro-chicken artwork by SFR's offices

The artwork, from the pro-chicken perspective, satirizes many different elements in the highly unusual and very impassioned debate that's been raging for more than two years now in Eldorado.

The first is a stab at the notion that pet chickens lower property values:

This showcases the phrase coined by chicken advocate Gershon Siegel to describe the conflict:

This one is a commentary on chickens as gateway pets for goats and cows:

This one outlines the dispute that pet chickens violate Eldorado's community covenants: 

 Read SFR's in-depth take on Eldorado's ongoing chicken drama here. For the pro-chicken side, take a look at the Hens in Eldorado Facebook page. For the anti-chicken (some prefer to be called pro-covenant or anti-livestock) perspective, take a look here, here and here

And a note to all who feel passionate about this issue on either side: If there's a website or Facebook page I forgot let me know and I'll post a link as soon as I can. 

Images by David Stafford.

 
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