Billy Beauford, of Sebastopol, California, developed an apple tree whose apples provided all the vitamins, minerals, and proteins for a healthy diet. If you had only one of these trees and a cellar to store its apples throughout the year, you wouldn’t need anything else to survive, even though your diet might be very boring, he said. Even so, Billy’s tab at the HopMonk Tavern grew as big as his hopes, until they started insisting that he paid it. Unfortunately, the big food company that bought his genetic stock told Billy that the apple was worthless, so the royalties that Billy anticipated never came in.
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