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Sacha writes:
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| A living thing is as much a commodity as anything else. Race horse owners
| shouldn't be paid if their mare produces a promising foal or their stallion
| covers a good brood mare? The semen straws cattle breeders send abroad
| should be free?

Let us say that I am a pigopoloist, and turn up demanding royalties
from you for every rose you sell, because I have retrospectively
patented the genus Rosa. That isn't far off what has been going
on, and what the extortionists want more of.

I wish that I were joking :-(


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.