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Speak Out
McFaddens to Wolf: Time to grow your own
It is STEALING, not liberating. Marina Wolf is indeed tresspassing, and stealing someone else's property. "It's wild-fruit hunting season in suburbia", page 9, vol. 8 #28, Dec 1, 1999.
Printing a "cutesy" feature story about it doesn't make it acceptable. Does she also steal flowers from other people's yards?
It is not up to her to determine if the fruit is "unwanted." All she would have to do is simply ASK the owner's permission to pick some fruit, and would most likely be told, with a smile, to "go ahead and take all you want."
If she didn't think it was stealing, she would't be doing it after dark, or out of the gaze of the owners.
Perhaps she should put some of her energy into actually growing some plants of her own, rather than STEALING the fruits of the labor of others.
Diana and Dudley McFadden
Sunnyvale
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Sunnyvale, California Since 1994
