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Here we go, corporate ownership of all food, and now, even animals.
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THE MONSANTO PIG (PATENT PENDING)
Posted By: WhiteHorseRider
Date: Tuesday, 9 August 2005, 10:43 a.m.
Here we go, corporate ownership of all food, and now, even animals.
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GREENPEACE.ORG
Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig
Greenpeace researcher uncovers chilling patent plans
02 August 2005
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The Monsanto Pig (Patent pending)
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. "Itīs 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."
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LINK TO FULL TEXT OF REPORT
[link to www.surfingtheapocalypse.net]
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