| Should Rouche Pharmaceuticals be allowed to buy up | | | | understand; |
| 90% of the Star Anise Fruit Crop in order to insure | | | | A.) A "K-street" law firm lobbyist for a US competing |
| they have the supply chain to fulfill the orders of bird | | | | Big Pharma Corp. calls in on a Congressional Staffer |
| flu vaccines in the future? Some have condemned | | | | and has a meeting with a Congressman, who |
| the multi-national conglomerate of foul play. | | | | personally calls the FTC Commissioner to look into |
| Actually it is smart thinking on their part, good for | | | | this Rouche purchase of Anise Star Fruit. |
| them. I do not see anyone condemning Starbuck's | | | | (Coincidentally at a time the FY2007 FTC budgets will |
| Coffee for buying up coffee plantations world wide | | | | be voted on by Congress) |
| to ensure their supply chain, in fact they are keeping | | | | B.) Rouche is put into an international trade |
| their costs lower that way and thus, higher profits | | | | negotiation as a "chip" or "Ace Card" for EU trade |
| and passed on lower costs as the commodity | | | | negotiations as each continent tries to force their will |
| becomes scarce as they buy it. | | | | for their in-country corporations for the other's |
| Although a 23-year old crybaby Washington DC | | | | corresponding markets. |
| Columbia University Liberal brainwashed FTC regulator | | | | Before we go slamming a multinational conglomerate |
| who has never had to make a payroll wouldn't know | | | | with the answer to the Bird Flu, which could |
| that would they? Surely not, they would do their little | | | | potentially save up to a Billion People, we ought to |
| casework, assist in filing a lawsuit and thus slow the | | | | consider the ramifications of our actions. Taking a |
| production of Bird Flu vaccine research at a critical | | | | linear approach to the problem, using lawyers, politics |
| juncture. Then everyone dies, but of course the | | | | and mass media hysteria is libel to get a whole lot |
| regulators do not care, as they are attacking Rouche | | | | more people killed than need be. So consider this in |
| for a couple of reasons they do not even | | | | 2006. |