Greenpeace is pretty nuttty sometimes, but this was good work. Truly an example of Monsanto being a dick.EPO revokes patent on Indian wheat
Tuesday, 05 October , 2004, 13:35
In a clear victory for Indian farmers, the European Patent Office has revoked the patent on Indian Nap Hal wheat variety following a legal opposition filed by Greenpeace at the EPO in February.
EPO has informed Greenpeace in a letter that the patent has been revoked in total, according to Ashesh Tayal, Scientific Advisor, Greenpeace India.
The European Patent office in Munich had granted a patent to Monsanto on May 21, 2003. The patent covered wheat exhibiting a special baking quality that Monsanto claimed to be its invention.
However, Greenpeace proved in its opposition that the wheat variety was bred by Indian farmers for improving its baking quality and it was not a genetically-engineered invention as claimed by Monsanto.
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Ahh, Bio-prospecting and Bio-piracy at it's finest! We need EddieX to express MSD-like outrage on this STAT.
If you really want to get sickened and be pissed off about this sort of thing and NAFTA at the same time explore a yellow bean grown traditionally in Mexico that some fucktard from Colorado patented: the mayocoba bean. And then you can go explore the neem tree for a fun follow up in India.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.o ... index.html
http://classes.lls.edu/s2001/biolaw/beanpatent.html
If you really want to get sickened and be pissed off about this sort of thing and NAFTA at the same time explore a yellow bean grown traditionally in Mexico that some fucktard from Colorado patented: the mayocoba bean. And then you can go explore the neem tree for a fun follow up in India.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.o ... index.html
http://classes.lls.edu/s2001/biolaw/beanpatent.html
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Monsanto is just about the most evil corporation in the world. Sure, they don't get countries to fight wars for oil or resources like some do, but they motherfukcing PATENT HUMAN GENES, and they make it illegal to plant crops that have the same genetic code as their terminator crops. Their practices are INSANE, and somehow, they haven't been murdered by an angry mob yet.
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Just search for Monsanto in google to find out more corporate goodness, but for starters here is one mediocre anti-monsanto site: http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/