ORIGINAL BFP SCUSD CHICKEN TEXT:

"16 MAY 2017 UPDATE / BREAKING NEWS: The Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale has become financially insolvent as of late; therefore unable to continue on as it was -- but the good news is the Santa Clara Unifed School District (SCUSD) has decided to officially take over management duties of the farm due to its' obvious educational/scientific etc purposes.

But the SCUSD has unfortunately also decided the various farm animals need to be removed and relocated elsewhere -- through a Yahoo Birdland Neighbors newsgroup discussion group that I was eliminated from many years ago (a civil rights violation; as private web sites of public accommodation = private businesses of public accommodation) for exposing local police misconduct; when I was one of the main people who spearheaded the effort to bring about the farm with a massive 10,000 piece self-funded neighborhood flyering effort.

I can understand moving some of the larger animals due to their need for more space; but the chickens and ducks and turkeys need to stay right where they are.

I heard it through 'the grapevine' (in other words; various covert neighborhood intelligence sources) that one old man who lives near the field complained about a rooster crowing; and that was part of the reason this knee jerk decision to remove the chickens etc occurred (while I complained for a decade about noise and harassment and stalking at my place of residence with no official action taken to stop it by the City of Sunnyvale).

"But! what about the hoards of noisy, messy soccer folks who are allowed to speed through and/or clog our once quiet neighborhood with speeding traffic etc; leaving litter all over the place down at the Patrick Henry field (littering carries a $1000 dollar fine) on what would otherwise be nice quiet weekends and/or weeknights? Generating loud soccer crowd noise when some adjacent neighbors would perhaps like to sleep in or just have some peace and quiet? Chickens are obviously not the main problem here; people are. So don't be a chicken! Stand up for the birds of Birdland Neighborhood!

These free range birds are not only more free than most non-free range children (who quite often have their rights violated when they are being held against their will by their paranoid TV watching parents); but they are also more free and live a better life than about 99.9% of the chickens on this earth. So let us fully appreciate; protect and save this vestige of chicken freedom; and allow it to affect our own freedoms in a positive way. Because freedom is not free until chickens are free as well...

THE BOTTOM LINE: Unless these said chickens can be guaranteed a quality of life as good or better than what they have already experienced (happy free range chickens roaming about instead of being in cramped cages) I am asking you to email the SCUSD Board of Trustees and OPPOSE THE SCUSD ORDER TO REMOVE THE CHICKENS (etc) FROM FULL CIRCLE FARM!

EMAIL THE SCUSD AND TELL THEM: "THIS IS THE BIRDLAND NEIGHBORHOOD!

PLEASE KEEP THE CHICKENS; TURKEYS AND DUCKS AT THE NEW PETERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL FARM!..."

Jim Canova / Email: jcanova@scusd.net (408) 423-2006

Albert Gonzalez / Email: asgonzalez@scusd.net (408) 246-6252

Jodi Muirhead / Email: jmuirhead@scusd.net (408) 444-6160

Andrew Ratermann / Email: aratermann@scusd.net (408) 244-4548

Mark Richardson / Email: mrichardson@scusd.net (408) 423-2006

Michele Ryan, Ph.D. / Email: mryan@scusd.net (408) 673-1620

Noelani Pearl Hunt / Email: nsallings@scusd.net (408) 480-8671

QUESTION: Why was it ok to build a huge looming (Apple Spaceship) structure right next to residential units in Cupertino -- but not have a few chickens running around out in the Peterson field? Money couldn't have anything to do with it, could it?..." 

Note: The free range chickens that roamed at Full Circle Farm are perhaps the most heart warming and greatly missed part of the farm. An old man named Mr. Smith walked his dogs at the Peterson field property for about 50 years (until the death of his last dog who developed cancer in his snout after sniffing around the edges of poisoned ground squirrel burrows at the Peterson field). Mr. Smith has seen all of the changes that have occurred in the Birdland neighborhood over the years; and he absolutely loved feeding the free range chickens the organic feed I gave to him. I used to occasionally feed those chickens as well. It is good to hear chickens are coming back to the Peterson field; I hope some get to run free...But it seems kind of ridiculous that I was going out of my way to purchase organic chicken feed to avoid releasing trace elements of dangerous non-organic chemicals into the environment; when the SCUSD was about to reverse this process and dose the field with yet another dangerous pesticide application.