"Sacha" wrote in message
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Patenting plant varieties is ridiculous enough as it is -
I'm not sure it could be made even more so ;-)

There's nothing ridiculous about it. Without plant breeders you
wouldn't
*get* new varieties of anything. And why should they spend time and
money
developing new strains for you to benefit while they don't?

But they did do precisely that for untold generations before the Plant
Breeders' Rights came into being.

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Franz