Posted on 07/19/2005 7:41:45 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
A pear is just a pear, except when it is also a laser-coded information delivery system with advanced security clearance.
And that is what pears - not to mention organic apples, waxy cucumbers and delicate peaches - are becoming in some supermarkets around the country. A new technology being used by produce distributors employs lasers to tattoo fruits and vegetables with their names, identifying numbers, countries of origin and other information that helps speed distribution. The marks are burned onto the outer layer of the skin and are visible to discerning consumers and befuddled cashiers alike.
A new laser technology for labeling fruits and vegetables, designed by Durand-Wayland, Inc., is being put to work at Southern Oregon Sales, a pear distributor in Medford, Ore.
The process, government approved and called safe by the industry, may sound sinister. But it was designed with the consumer in mind: laser coding could mean the end of those tiny stubborn stickers that have to be picked, scraped or yanked off produce.
Sticker-removal duty took Jean Lemeaux of Clarksville, Tex., half an hour one day last week....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Big Brother is watching your fruit.
Revelations 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell [fruits and vegetables], save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Pare a pair of pears -- one tattooed and one not -- and you won't be able to tell the difference.
Barney Frank getting some body art, is he?
Those stickers are annoying.
I am quite sure I will be able to see the difference.
Who told you that, ton père?
big boy !!! Beat me to it
LOL!!!!
A-pair-ently.
I believe that is a little out of context - Revelations talks of People wearing the mark of the beast in order to do commerce. What's the difference between using a laser or a sticker on the fruit/veggies - either way, they're marked.
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I know. I just thought it was ironic. Revelations is usually interpreted to mean that people will need a mark ( a tattoo?) in order to purchase. Now we have products with a tattoo so that they can be purchased.
I see no evil taking place.
Then they came for the peaches, and I said nothing, for I was not a peach -- although I am a bit fuzzy and a real treat.
Then they came for me, and there were no fruits left to hurl at them.
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