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

Is this then the only solution to anthrax in the mail?  Smacks of "we had 
to destroy the village to save it" philosophy.  How about giant vacuums 
pre-screening the mail?  Terrorists will surely have won if Americans can't 
plant gardens or live normal lives.  Perhaps we ought to have services for 
the death of common sense.  The last count I heard was 9 people with 
anthrax, most with treatable skin eruptions.  I wonder how many people died 
in car accidents in the past 24 hours?  Margaret Lauterbach

>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.

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