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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 20:35:04 +0000
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From: maroc@islandnet.com (Maroc)
Subject: Biodiversity PR

So long as US and European chemical companies can patent someone or
something else's genetic structure, bioprospecting will be seen as having a
negative effect upon those being "prospected", no matter what the expensive
PR flacks concoct.

Don Maroc
Vancouver Island, Canada


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