It's illegal to prosper…

"[M]y observation is that it is typically illegal for low income people to do the things they used to do to increase the quality of food in their diets. You can’t raise pigs and chickens in your back yard anymore. OK, maybe we’re seeing some small evolution in some areas on chickens, but not a lot. Nobody is keeping a milk cow in cities and selling the milk and cream to their neighbors. And everywhere, there is a war on the territory presently occupied by low income people. … [P]oor people also can’t build their own housing anymore. That’s against the law too."

The Six Hands of Community Food Security « BobWaldrop.net