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[sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>]

On 2/5/2010 2:22 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:
> Personally, I think it was part of a general trend in government to
> make consumers terrified of everything.
>
>    

Agreed.  Plus I believe it was a convenient way to drive the little guy 
out, which has for whatever reason been a goal for some time now, 
beginning at least in the 70s and maybe before.  For instance, the fee 
structure had been designed so that large producers had a mere few 
dollars to pay for entire herds numbering in the thousands, while small 
producers had to pay by the head.  That's only one of  the devices used; 
I'm glad to see the end of the whole blamed thing, although I will admit 
I wanted to see somebody stand and microchip a hive of bees one by one.....

Some ideas were never meant to fly.

SJ