Dear Mother: June/July 2009
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June/July 2009
Reader letters
Candice Chatfield
Trujillo, New Mexico
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Leading Coverage of NAIS
Thank you for again bringing the horrors of the National Animal Identification System into the light on your website, through blogs and articles, and for providing links for those of us who choose to make our voices heard. From where I stand, Mother Earth News has been the leader in bringing this terrible issue to the consciousness, and conscience, of many Americans. May we be heard.
Gerard Schubert
Wisconsin Independent Consumers and Farmers Assoc.
Berlin, Wisconsin
Feeding Birds Brings Bears
For those living in or near bear country, it is absolutely not a good idea to feed birds in summertime (Ask Our Experts). Birdseed is highly attractive to bears, and many bears will happily wander into your backyard to get this easy meal. This often leads to negative human-bear interactions as the bear becomes habituated to this food and spends more and more time in human-occupied areas. Tragically, more often than not these “problem” bears have to be destroyed, as they become a threat to human safety.
Heidi Arnold
Bremerton, Washington
You Can Beat City Hall
I am writing as a representative from the Citizens Action Group in La Pine, Ore. La Pine is one of four federal Demonstration Project sites that were chosen for studying nitrogen in the water supply and encouraging the installation of complicated, expensive and, for the most part, unnecessary treatment systems.
In the February/March 2008 issue, you featured an informative article, The Truth About Septic Systems by Lloyd Kahn. Our citizens group had been objecting to these types of systems for over a year at that point. That article helped us to understand the dynamics of the push to mandate the studies and installation of these systems as a money making venture on the part of county staffs and installers of these systems. You kindly sent us extra copies of your magazine and gave us permission to quote the article in our organizing efforts.
Despite almost 100 percent objection of the La Pine citizens, the county passed a law called the “Local Rule” to mandate the installation of these septic systems. But we didn’t give up. We collected 2,400 valid signatures on a petition to recall the Local Rule, forcing it to a vote. The county staff, local newspapers and big money interests all united against us. It was impossible to get them to acknowledge the truths so clearly detailed in Kahn’s article, or to publish any information from the U.S. Geological Survey study that countered their arguments.
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