Press: Sneeze-free kittens not for everyone - HC

(Selling living beings as "products" bodes poorly for our world, as Jeremy Rifkin has been preaching for more than 25 years.)

(Houston Chronicle) "A small California biotechnology company says it is ready to deliver the Holy Grail of the $35 billion pet industry: a hypoallergenic cat.

At the start of next year, the first kittens will go home to eager owners who have been on a waiting list for more than two years.

Allerca, of San Diego, says it has received inquiries from people in 85 countries seeking to buy a cat bred so that its glands do not produce the protein responsible for most human cat allergies."