Tattooed Fruit

I love the reporting on this piece about laser-tattooing fruit.

Sticker-removal duty took Jean Lemeaux of Clarksville, Tex., half an hour one day last week.

"I was picking all the little stickers from the Piggly Wiggly off my plums and my avocado pears and my peaches," said Ms. Lemeaux, 76. "Then I had to make fruit salad out of the ones that got hurt when I took the stickers off, and then I had to wash the glue off the other ones before I put them in the fruit bowl."

"One time," she said, "I got up the next morning and looked in the mirror and there were two of them up in my hair."

The article takes an ominous turn, though, when it mentions that the industry has been encouraged to develop "track and trace" technology. So They will know how much you eat?

On a practical level, I would think that stickers would be better suited for this than a barcode. You could embed an RFID tag on the sticker, or, if you were really devious, you could engineer some kind of transmitter into the seeds...