permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

Thank you, Heather. It's so easy for fearful rumor to become pseudo-fact via
the internet, and for us to see demons behind every tree (when in fact they
only lurk behind every third tree). It's a lesson for all of us to do some
fact checking via reputable sources before we go ballistic. Thanks for
working toward a paranoia-free internet!

Toby
www.patternliteracy.com



On 2/27/06 2:16 PM, "Heather" <Heather@ecoversity.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just spoke with the guy who invented the microchip idea.  He told me
> he had a five hour meeting with the US Secretary of Agriculture last
> week, and that most of those rumors are not at all true.  Yes, this is a
> registry program for beef and poultry, but it won't target the random
> pet and livestock owner.  Microchips don't work apparently, as they
> migrate around on the body, so it will be tattoos or some other form of
> identification.  This is happening around fear of bird flu virus and mad
> cow disease.  He said that all the other rumours about registering our
> cats, dogs and parakeets is b.s.  He's very involved with this project,
> as well as being a real supporter of organic agriculture, etc... He has
> a wife with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and gave the Secretary of
> Agriculture an earful about that too...  Anyhow, thought I'd dispel some
> of the hysteria out there, as I was well on my way to becoming a vector
> of it myself.
> 
> Heather