Biotech giants demand a high price for saving the planet

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 Eu Lupu - Oct. 1, 2008

Not only good journalism but militant journalism. Patenting could be "very important" for making money but there is no room for it when it comes to address the food problem of the world. Monsanto and others in the business of GM crops do not solve the problem just compound it by basically "enslaving" the farmers if there politics succeed. Never mind destroying the all ready existent bank of seeds developed by mother nature and farmers along thousands of year. Never mind the unknown effect of GM crops on people and environment. Mind only the PROFIT. We all should reject the current policies and interests of companies like Monsanto. This is not to say that we should reject in totality the research done until now, just actively research for better scientific answers not implement politics of dominations in the name of profit.

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