This Company Lets You Rent Chickens. Here's What That Means for Our Food System.

For 14-year-old Iliana Bassin, living with her family in suburban Maryland, chicken renting has been empowering. She’s noticed that the animals—free to roam and dust-bathe as they like—produce eggs that look and taste much better than the ones her family used to purchase at the supermarket, which they haven’t done for the past two years.

Because of the chickens, renters are spending more time outdoors, engaging their community and expanding their gardens .that children’s meaningful engagement with nature—as opposed to screens—leads to improved social relationships and general well-being, physical and mental. “Kids are now so far away from the earth. But chickens bring them closer,” says Gretchen Brocks, a RentACoop client. Usually shy, and house- and iPad-bound, her neighbors’ kids now visit the chickens after dinner every night instead of turning to their screens. Brocks also says that having chickens has, in noticeable ways, contributed to her mental welfare; she finds herself stopping housework throughout the day just to hear the clucking chickens.

Gr3ffi

Hmmmm I'm not sure I can see renting a chicken from a big company as decentralizing our food system? All that moving would be hard on the hens, and I imagine the companies don't so much overwinter them as kill them?

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