Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig

[realFedUp]

Aug. 2, 2005

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

Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig.
Greenpeace researcher uncovers chilling patent plans.

Geneva, Switzerland — 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.

In the crop department, Monsanto is well on their way to dictating what consumers will eat, what farmers will grow, and how much Monsanto will get paid for seeds. In some cases those seeds are designed not to reproduce sowable offspring. In others, a flock of lawyers stand ready to swoop down on farmers who illegally, or even unknowingly, end up with Monsanto's private property growing in their fields.

One way or another, Monsanto wants to make sure no food is grown that they don't own -- and the record shows they don't care if it's safe for the environment or not. Monsanto has aggressively set out to bulldoze environmental concerns about its genetically engineered (GE) seeds at every regulatory level.

So why stop in the field? Not content to own the pesticide and the herbicide and the crop, they've made a move on the barnyard by filing two patents which would make the corporate giant the sole owner of that famous Monsanto invention: the pig.

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[K-W]

1. Just wait until all the food and water is owned by corporations.

We are sure to enter that free market utopia.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. That's the plan

[MountainLaurel]

2. cough *soylent green* cough

What happens when all the food sources are patented?

[gollygee]

3. Watch the documentary "The Corporation"

I am buying almost entirely organic food, as much from local sources as possible, after hearing about Monsato in that. They talk about patents of living organisms in that movie, and they talk about Monsato.

[realFedUp]

4. thanks, I will. nt

[Solly Mack]

5. chilling

[blogslut]

6. basmati rice

I think some Texas company tried to do this with Basmati rice. Bought patents and rights to use the name, thus screwing the Basmati growers of India.