Biotech giants demand a high price for saving the planet

The Independent by Geoffrey Lean | Jun. 10, 2008 (News Report)

Giant biotech companies are privatising the world's protection against climate change by filing hundreds of monopoly patents on genes that help crops resist it, a new investigation has concluded.

The study - by the authoritative Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group), based in Ottawa, Canada - has found that nine firms have filed at least 532 patents around the world on about 55 different genes offering protection ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The article gives competing views on big corporations patenting nature in order to profit from famine. The proper role of governments and the rights of people are talked about, but perhaps too sketchy for full coverage of this issue.

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