-=> Quoting Ty Meissner to George Lagergren <=-
 TM> On 08-28-97  13:07, George Lagergren typed to Mark Probert
 TM> regarding: => Pharmacutical company <=
 TM> The purpose of patenting all existing plant material (what
 TM> global corporations are currently doing) is so they can charge
 TM> you a license fee (on top of what it it normally costs you) every
 TM> time you sprout a seed or grow a plant regardless of who sold or
 TM> gave you the seeds. 
 TM> Ring.... !!!!   <- ALARM CLOCK GOING OFF
 TM> ***  THAT INCLUDES EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR HERBS, folks.  ***
 TM> Kind of like a VAT imposed by private corporations.
 TM> Business ethics.  Free market capitalism.   You've gotta love it.
 
     Ty  -->  The drug companies are also trying patent "lab-made"
     herbs as if they are the same as "nature made" herbs.
     If the patent offices grants a patent on a "lab made" herb 
     as if to cover  the "nature made" herb ,too, herb consumers are 
     really in trouble.
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