Thinking about reproduction and...E.B. White?

This morning I read an article concerning a commercial venture in pet cloning. This evening I saw a Twitter post by @monkchips about Plant Breeder's Rights. Then I remembered the following, written in January 1936 and reprinted in  E.B. White: Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976, entitled  “Prohibited”:

The plant-patent business is taking right hold, apparently. We know a man who received a birthday present of a nice little azalea. Tied around the azalea’s stem, like a chastity belt was a metal tag from Bobbink & Atkins, reading “asexual reproduction of this plant is illegal under the Plant Patent Act.” It was Number 147. Our friend, a man of loose personal habits, ripped the tag off angrily, fed it to his dachshund puppy, and sent the plant to a friend in Connecticut with instructions to bed it down warmly next to an old buck hydrangea.

An appropriate response, if you ask me.