In India, the local communities suddenly discover that medical practices and materials they have been using for centuries are now owned by American companies, so they should be bought from the latter; with the biogenetic companies patenting genes, we are all discovering that part of ourselves, our genetic components, are already copyrighted, own by others…
In Defense of Lost Causes. Slavoj Zizek. Unbehagen in der Natur. Pag.420.