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 linda adams - Oct. 1, 2008

This is good journalism The mear fact that it is reported. However i must say ..."will the market place ever get.......... that the same GREED that allows ownership of all (PATENT) to a few thus allows/demands.......... the toto missuse/abuse of all,THIS ATTITUDE OF MINE-MINE- MINE............... created the problem in the 1st place " "the perpertrators will 0/never become ...ths heros" doing the same old "BUSINESS AS USUAL"

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