Ann: Activity update , page-39

Comparing CSS to finding a cure for AIDS or cancer? Gee! It's silly, but if you do want to compare, let's look at the economics.

The combined global efforts to find a cure for AIDS will not be a profitable one. The combined global effort to cure cancer will not be a profitable one. We will eventually get there anyway, because there is a reason to, we want to, it's important to us.

The effort to breed SBT has been demonstrated not to be a profitable one. Will it happen anyway? Probably not, at least not by CSS (or anyone in the near future). There isn't the same drive to run an uneconomic fish project as there is to save human lives.

If cancer and AIDS cures were profitable we'd be researching them. I don't know of any CURE projects publicly listed, because they're not profitable. AIDS and cancer MANAGEMENT drugs can be profitable, because the problem isn't removed, it stays there and you can keep milking it. It's a sad but true situation; if it's not economic it's not going to be happening, at least in a publicly listed company.

When CURES are invented it will probably be by government-funded labs, or more charitable labs, rather than companies run by people wanting to make money.

When species are saved uneconomically (which very very rarely happens) it is in charitable situations, not economic ones.

If we were talking about Koalas or something, maybe CSS could register as a charity and get donations. I don't think you'll find that a publicly-listed company can qualify as a charity, and SBT don't have the same cuddly appeal as a Koala.

It doesn't matter how much they want it to happen, or how much it should happen, it's just not going to happen when there is no more money to fuel the project.