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December 2008/January 2009
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On the very next page, Which Comes First: The Chicken or the Profit? really brings it home. Californians are trying to pass a law that would ban confining animals in cages too small for them to stand or stretch their wings. Hooray for the chickens — that’ll show those farmers they can’t abuse their animals, and if they do, it’s the State Pen for them! (Ha ha, sorry for that.)

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I know this article is about the Egg Board breaking lobbying laws, but that’s irrelevant to my point: You can’t legislate behavior, folks, because of that other law — the Law of Unintended Consequences, which these articles demonstrate. You never know when the law will be turned against you for something that should be legal.

If we keep trying to respond to the fear mongering of the media by making more laws, by irradiating fruit and vegetables, and so on, we might as well all start living in antiseptic bubbles. And woe to the species when the next new bug hits us.

I’m not saying that the chicken-cage legislation is bad, I just don’t think that legislation is a real solution. Education is the only solution, the only way you can make things change.

Gregg Rosner
El Cajon, California

Our Numbers are not the Problem

Population should not be a target in protecting our planet. Our resources were put here for mankind. It’s the way we live, not the number. There are examples coming out of my ears. If Mother Earth News suggests population control even subtly, know that I will be your foe.

Protecting the planet should protect people. A suicidal editorial policy — population control — is contrary to taking care of the weak and small. And it caters to the selfish. And it is based on lies.

Kathleen Plumb
Ballantine, Montana

Pink Slip

Have you missed me? Your issues are now brimming with self-congratulations, pandering to what I call the GRONY movement: the politically correct, green phony movement.

Look at the CDs of old issues and remember who you are. I will be back when you have real plans, real solutions, real self-sufficiency.

W.J. Graves
Delaware, Ohio

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I’ve been meaning to write for a long time about how the magazine has improved. The last many issues are just like when it first started. In the last couple of issues you just outdid yourselves on gardening. As a fresh market grower, I find most all your articles have been right on. Keep up the trend, you’re doing a great job.

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