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Re: Re: [GWL]: Irradiation of Mail & Plant Fallout

I'm with Carolyn on this one. Certainly irradiation of the mail will have a
negative effect on the seed business and on seed exchanges between the rest
of us, but it is the price we'll have to pay.
    At a time like this, at this particular time, we need to think safety
first as we never have before. Anthrax is obviously no joke and if
irradiation of the mail will stop this, that's exactly what we need to do.
    The mood of the American public now is (rightly) such that we garden
writers would indeed be wise to go along on this and not to oppose it. In
the near future there will be a great many inconveniences due to the
terrorists' acts. This will probably be one of the least of them.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolyn Ulrich" <Cultivated@aol.com>
To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [GWL]: Irradiation of Mail & Plant Fallout


> certainly the effect of irradiation on seeds is something we're going to
have
> to deal with, but i would rather pay extra bucks for seeds delivered by
UPS
> or FedEx  than get anthrax. everything that we're doing to protect
ourselves
> these days is costing megabucks, and i think we're just going to have to
> accept it since the alternative is worse. i would not like to see the
garden
> writing community  or the green industry oppose mail irradiation. it would
> not set well with the rest of the country, i dare say.
>
> i read today that Amsterdam airport now has an iris scanner in place to ID
> you by matching your eyes to an image in the scanner. supposedly more
> accurate than fingerprints. i can't begin to imagine how much it's going
to
> cost to put these in American airports but i'm willing to have an "iris
> scanner tax" added to my plane ticket if it'll help get me to my
destination
> alive. carolyn ulrich
>
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