
{"id":6960,"date":"2009-09-10T08:33:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2009-09-10T08:36:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:36:38","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-letter-writer-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/09\/10\/letter-to-the-editor-letter-writer-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Letter writer wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was puzzled by the hostility in the op-ed piece written by Marianne Prince regarding the keeping of farm animals in urban environments (Sept. 3). It is obvious to me that Ms. Prince doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know either Brian or Sharon or their motivations in regulating \u00e2\u20ac\u0153urban homesteading.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She contends that rabies is rare in goats, and so her fainting goats shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to be vaccinated.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The truth is that rabies is rare in all domesticated animals, yet good public health policy demands they be vaccinated, including your dog, my cat and Ms. Prince\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s goats. According to the NIH, rabies cases are on the rise in North Carolina. Rabies vaccinations really aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about the animal. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about preventing transmission to us and our children, and as someone who has been bitten by a rabid animal I can assure you that even one case is too many. For the record, the rabies vaccine that is given to sheep is effective in goats.<\/p>\n<p>To say that Brian is against \u00e2\u20ac\u0153green progress\u00e2\u20ac\u009d just shows an ignorance of what she writes. The Voyces live on just under half an acre and grow cherries, blueberries, strawberries, beans, corn, cabbage, at least 12 kinds of lettuce, peas, zucchini, tomatoes, cantaloupe and watermelon. I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spied some eggplant and asparagus, but don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quote me.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know Ms. Prince and her partner, but I do know that it is virtually impossible for one family to eat the eggs produced by the 40-plus chickens living and being slaughtered in Ms. Prince\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s yard. So there is more than \u00e2\u20ac\u0153self-sufficiency,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which is the goal of urban homesteading, going on at the Quite Contrary Farm. She also runs a for-profit children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s camp at her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153farm.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It is a commercial establishment. Is it properly licensed? Does Carboro town ordinance even allow for this type of business to be run in a residential neighborhood? Should it be regulated by state day-care regulations?<br \/>\nThat is the business of town government, or it should be.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Prince is, of course, entitled to her opinion, but her characterizations are both false and ill-informed. It is clear that she is putting her own commercial interests above the good of her community. How progressive!<\/p>\n<p>Katrina Ryan<br \/>\nCarrboro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was puzzled by the hostility in the op-ed piece written by Marianne Prince regarding the keeping of farm animals in urban environments (Sept. 3). It is obvious to me that Ms. Prince doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know either Brian or Sharon or their motivations in regulating \u00e2\u20ac\u0153urban homesteading.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She contends that rabies is rare in goats, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6967,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}