{"id":3701,"date":"2008-08-11T09:15:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T14:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2008-08-11T09:15:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T14:15:52","slug":"locavore_movement_gains_steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/locavore_movement_gains_steam.html","title":{"rendered":"Locavore Movement Gains Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raising chickens in your backyard is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/19\/dining\/19yard.html?ex=1347940800&#038;en=f845e9a338a72fb7&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">a fine thing<\/a>. A <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/restaurants\/features\/37273\/\">fine thing<\/a>. It&#8217;s part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2008\/08\/06\/2008-08-06_raid_on_brooklyn_cockfighting_facility.html\">our heritage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Investigators who raided a Brooklyn apartment building Wednesday found a cockfighting factory, a breeding ground for brutality. <\/p>\n<p>There were chicks a few months old and battle-scarred veterans &#8212; 59 in all, destined for the lucrative betting rings that pop up across the city. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no ring here, but they were breeding and housing them for the fights,&#8221; said Al Lombardo, deputy chief of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes&#8217; investigators. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love my birds,&#8221; Corchado, 40, protested as he was led away in handcuffs. <\/p>\n<p>Cages of the raging roosters were stacked three deep in the Arlington Ave. backyard. Shipping labels showed some were brought in from Puerto Rico. <\/p>\n<p>Most had their combs cut off, making it harder for opposing birds to grab them. Other were shaved. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I shave them because the weather is hot,&#8221; Corchado said. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors scoffed at the excuse. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are placing razor blades on the birds&#8217; legs to cut humidity? No, these animals were trained to kill everything around them,&#8221; said Deputy District Attorney Carol Moran.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising chickens in your backyard is a fine thing. A fine thing. It&#8217;s part of our heritage: Investigators who raided a Brooklyn apartment building Wednesday found a cockfighting factory, a breeding ground for brutality. There were chicks a few months old and battle-scarred veterans &#8212; 59 in all, destined for the lucrative betting rings that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3702,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}