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> Big Pharma was unmoved, believing it would be impossible to patent a medicine that was essentially a ground-up peanut.

> [One of the companies working on the issue] has ties to the food industry, which has a vested interest in finding treatments for allergies.

Make of this what you will.

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1. Companies investing hundreds of millions want to ensure a return 2. Food companies want customers to eat (and not die from) their products.

Groundbreaking, I know.

Of course it's reasonable within the system. Inward and outward reasonableness of a system are sometimes quite orthogonal.

It's pretty unexpected that the motivation to work on a medical treatment is not altruism (nor even direct gain from selling the treatment) but is to enable the controlling capitalist(s) to make more money selling food that otherwise the untreated could not consume.

Isn't that a very real example of the lives of millions only being improved because their current hardship is losing capital holders a sales opportunity.

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