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OCTOBER 6, 2011
TO THE EDITOR
Safe?” warns there is no regulation of inks
injected into skin. The report says “Many
pigments used in tattoo inks are industrial-
grade colors suitable for printers’ ink or
automobile paint.” See http://wkly.ws/14a
I have had a basal cell carcinoma (skin
cancer) sliced off my body. Anyone who
sticks needles into someone should have
medical training and a good reason.
It is ironic that some who object to
artifi cial colors in food see no problem
permanently putting paint into the body’s
largest organ: skin.
The tattoo fad reminds me of the crowd
scene in Monty Python’s The Life of Brian:
“We’re all individuals.” James Kunstler
(www.kunstler.com) has wry commentary on
the sociological signifi cance of tattoos. Their
increasing popularity is an indicator that our
culture no longer has a sense of a future.
Mark Robinowitz
Eugene
EDITOR’S NOTE: EW is perfectly happy to take ads
from dermatologists too.
OSU AARGH SCIENCE
It’s a shame that OSU doesn’t practice
or even advocate humane and sustainable
farming practices that improve the safety
and nutrition value of meat, milk, and
eggs; promote the humane husbandry
of food animals; reduce environmental
pollution and conserve natural resources;
and broaden economic opportunities for
family farmers, including the development
and preservation of niche markets.
Center stage is OSU Dairy Center. I’m
sure you have noticed the glaring white
plastic that covers tons of cow manure
at 4490 Harrison St. — manure which
would emit dangerous levels of methane
gas if let loose. The reason why: The dairy
management is reluctant to innovate water
troughs into grazing pastures, citing lack
of funds and space, therefore trapping
more than 250 “wet” cows into the seamy
confi nes of the dairy barn walls.
Next is the OSU Swine Center. Here
pigs are raised under the constant glare of
fl uorescent lights. Fortunately, the sows
are allowed to root around outside; the
boars are not. The management also cites
lack of funds and space as the reasons why.
Last is the OSU Poultry Center where
hundreds of chicks are gestated from eggs
every term as research projects for students
and deftly disposed of after they are no
longer of use.
I rest my case. Wake up, OSU Ag Sci-
ence, and smell the winds of change before
they blow you off the map of consumer ex-
pectation and of humane animal care.
Kay Sams
Corvallis
BEGGAR BOTS
While supplies last.
6
letters
EUGENE WEEKLY
The economy may be depressed but my
beggar bots are booting booty. Unemployed
and out of insurance, I was getting worried.
I reckoned I would soon be standing on a
street corner with a cardboard sign. The
problem with this method of procuring
cash is one of scale: You can only be on
one corner at a time. My solution was to
deploy a platoon of robots which could
cover various locations 24/7. Last winter I
built a number of cyber-mendicants to test
on the streets.
A big problem was predation from, you
know, real beggars. No matter how realistic
I made my homunculi the street smarties
would wise to the occasion. One of my top
bots was a crippled granny raising funds
to feed her cat (a scrawny specimen with a
piteous mew). A motion detector triggered
her quavery voice, “Spare change so I
can feed my kitty?” Whereupon a shaky,
liver-spotted hand would beseechingly be
proffered. This puppet was taking in 50 to
60 bucks a day. Then all of a sudden she
dries up and doesn’t yield a dime. So I get
mighty suspicious and set up a surveillance
cam. Turns out some young street punk
was fi lching all her collections. Stealing
from granny! Tells you something about
human nature to observe such wickedness.
But I am not a tech-savvy, high IQ,
creative genius to be bamboozled by
such a fl aw in my system. I invented an
aromatherapy discouragement to beggar
bot crittling. Unauthorized access of the
purse wherein the cash is stashed releases
a powerful effl uvium. This stuff makes,
comparatively, a sewage treatment plant
smell like Elysian Fields after a rain;
makes a strong man swoon and a débutante
retch out her liver. Banditry of my beggar
bots has fallen off sharply.
I now have a network of bots sucking in
as much as 900 smack-a-doodly-whops a
day. Tax free cash in a fl utter of small bills but
mostly dimes and quarters. I actually have to
use a wheelbarrow to take it to the bank.
A glamour gig it is not. But it beats
collecting cans and bottles or, gulp, standing
out there with a cardboard sign myself.
David H. Tyson
Eugene
HUMAN VS. BICYCLE RIGHTS
Shannon Wilson’s letter (9/22)
demanding safe bicycle routes would
please me, however, safe bicycle routes
will not signifi cantly reduce the carnage
caused by motor vehicle operations.
Currently approximately 2.3 million
emergency room visits, 40,000 human and
300 million-plus animal deaths are caused
each year by motor vehicle incidents.
Traffi c engineers know that motor vehicle
operation at speeds below 20 mph greatly
increase collision survivability and reduce
incidents, yet we permit speeds of 35, 45,
or 55 mph in areas where people must
cross or enter roadways. Few question why
until they lose a loved one.
Governments seem to operate at two
extremes: one allowing exploitation of the
people, the other to protect. I argue that
our government is allowing exploitation
of people for high speed commerce on our
roadways. The injuries and deaths seem
worth the profi ts from rural development
and fast delivery. The problem could
be solved through legislation and
infrastructure, and it could be solved
immediately by the people.
If only a fraction of the humanitarians
and “believers” who profess love for their
fellow man and living creatures would not
drive in excess of 20 mph on any secondary
road, motor vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians,
equestrians and animals could all coexist
safely. Will any of us take action?
Ed Gunderson
Creswell
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