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@article{Pollock2012RaisingCI, title={Raising Chickens in City Backyards: The Public Health Role}, author={Steven L. Pollock and Craig Stephen and Nataliya Skuridina and Tom Kosatsky}, journal={Journal of Community Health}, year={2012}, volume={37}, pages={734-742}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:43986578}}
  • S. Pollock, C. Stephen, T. Kosatsky
  • Published in Journal of community health 1 June 2012
  • Environmental Science

There is increasing interest in raising chickens in urban settings across North America, but the importance or validity of claims of positive and negative effects cannot be supported by literature specific to the urban agriculture context.

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