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It turns out that an egg in the supermarket uses 350 times as much energy as a locally produced egg ("from basket to table"). The only way to build a sustainable low energy food production system is to go back to the local, decentralized, the personal and the small/human scaled.
The newspapers and politicians will prefer to sell you the opposite of the human scaled though; they will chatter about fighting food waste and smart hatcheries and recycling, in order to cease more control and more wealth. They are only im the business to create dependence.
With your own dovecote or chicken coop or duck pond or goose house you will have no food waste there will be nothing to recycle and you yourself will supply the smarts. They'll keep you with fertilizer for the rest of your days and help with pest control. And they are lovable. 
And the time you spend fuzzing with your birds will be time spent off the Internet and your smartphone and TVs and your cars: all in all a tremendous amount of energy savings. Not to mention the therapeutic effect of hugging your birds every day!
By far the easiest bird to keep is a quail, and especially the tiny Japanese quail. Great tasting eggs and the bird itself can be eaten.
But maybe the easiest flying thing keep and care for is the humble bee. Here is Alex Langlands and his philosophy of the apiary.
