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["Lisa K. V. Perry" <lkvp AT floydva.net>]

Marie McHarry wrote:

> We're living in a country where the government can't fund port security and
> is going trillions of dollars into debt to irritate the Arab world and turn
> the Undecideds there into bona fide terrorists. To imagine that we'll have
> inspectors climbing into the trees to see if the hens and guineas are in
> compliance -- well, I suppose it will be interesting to see how it all works
> out.
>  
Love it.  I explained the law to my sons this morning at breakfast and 
they both looked at me like I was nuts.  My oldest son, now 15, began 
his rant with "you've got to be kidding me, they want to keep track of 
our chickens and they can't even...."  I'm with Rob, why waste the time, 
energy and money to discuss such an issue in the first place?  The good 
old USDA, who can't keep track of mad cow disease and won't fund testing 
of more than 1/10 of 1% of all cattle going to market.  My memory may 
not be correct on the percentage of cows tested, but I do recall it was 
a very small number, less than 1%.  Where is that Hightower report when 
I need it?