At 1:05 AM -0500 2/28/06, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
John Schinnerer wrote:
Heather, can you tell us the name of the 'microchip guy' you spoke with?
Perhaps that will help people sort this out without needing to resort to
personal attacks on list members.
Spreading hysterical unresearched BS to a large list isn't a great idea.
I'm with John on this one. There appear to be two very different points of view out there, and right at the moment, I don't know which one contains truth and which one contains "hysterical BS." I am willing to believe that both sides are acting in good faith, based on the data available to them.
Archer is right; a national livestock ID program is a must. As time
progresses I am sure
methods will evolve that will enable small farmers to be able to get with the
program and mark all their animals.
It can't be that difficult. Huge corporate poultry operations will have a
task at hand of another order of magnitude.
Do you farm or otherwise work the land in any way for a living? Probably not.
Those that do will have to
defend their livelihoods, now and in the future, from those who would disrupt them through limiting access to their fair market share. This appears to already be happening around the world to farmers in 3rd world countries. These are issues you and js will probably never have to deal with. It would be wise for all livestock owners, homeowner to corporate to work cooperatively with the government to make a sensible ID program work, one with a level playing field with implementation processes that work for all.
Innuendos, hell. There are mailing lists I moderate on which namecalling like "hysterical BS" is clearly defined as a personal attack/insult, and would get the poster warned and/or booted for repeat offenses.
I don't think John is "implying" anything - he comes right out and calls it like he sees it - and I agree with him that your words are really uncalled for.
Whatever happened to "thoughtful and protracted observation?" Care of the Earth? Care of the people? How does namecalling promote *any* of that?
If we're going to start ripping each other apart over "matters of faith," we're going to do Monsanto's work for them. If you can't
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