Today I ran into a situation that made me completely nausiated and feel like my privacy had been completely invaded... It involves a chip which is implanted in animals and used for identification...

Humans are worth more money, and genotyping will do the same thing, for cheaper, and with little outcry. Implanted chips means at least a doctors visit for every humasn in the country; genotyping only happens like fingerprinting, when you get a drivers license or soemthing. I think the underlying concern is OK, but misplaced worrying about kitty-cats. Cats can certainly be violated, but usually aren't aware of it ahead of time, and there's not much they can do about it :-) Consider also they generally *kill* cats they can't return. A chip implant under these circumstances seems not a problem. -- Tom Jennings -- tomj@wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif.