Chickens in the City

So, I was in Phoenix, AZ. recently, and heard that there was some sort of controversy about raising chickens in the city limits.  The controversy is rights to raise chickens vs. neighbors' rights to peace and quiet.

Evidently raising chickens for fresh eggs has caught on in the city.  One person interviewed talked about having allergies to various store bought eggs, and the eggs the chickens lay are "organic."  They feed the chickens unadulterated food, no chemicals, no antibiotics, and so they have organic eggs.

The neighbors complain, of course, because the chickens crow at the crack of dawn, which is very, very early in Phoenix.

I am in favor of chickens in the city.  If they are properly cared for, and contained in their appropriate yard or pen. 

We already have a lot of ambient noises in the city, and we learn to live with them:  traffic, dogs, airplanes, helicopters, sirens, buses, trucks, trains, street sweepers. Depending where you live in the city, the noises are not so bad.  But there are noises.  So, crowing and cackling chickens are not so bad.