Fwd: [ cacklinggrackle] Monsanto seeks to patent the pig

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[cacklinggrackle] Monsanto seeks to patent the pig

 

 

" It's official. Monsanto Corporation is out to own the world's food

supply, the dangers of genetic engineering and reduced biodiversity

notwithstanding, as they pig-headedly set about hog-tying farmers with

their monopoly plans. We've discovered chilling new evidence of this in

recent patents that seek to establish ownership rights over pigs and their

offspring.

 

" The patent applications were published in February 2005 at the World

Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva. A Greenpeace

researcher who monitors patent applications, Christoph Then, uncovered the

fact that Monsanto is seeking patents not only on methods of breeding, but

on actual breeding herds of pigs as well as the offspring that result.

 

" 'If these patents are granted, Monsanto can legally prevent breeders and

farmers from breeding pigs whose characteristics are described in the

patent claims, or force them to pay royalties,' says Then. 'It's a first

step toward the same kind of corporate control of an animal line that

Monsanto is aggressively pursuing with various grain and vegetable

lines.' "

 

Full article at:

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/monsanto-pig-patent-111