Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig

[MrScorpio]

Greenpeace researcher uncovers chilling patent plans

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.

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. “It’s 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.”

There are more than 160 countries and territories mentioned where the patent is sought including Europe, the Russian Federation, Asia (India, China, Philippines) America (USA, Brazil, Mexico), Australia and New Zealand. WIPO itself can only receive applications, not grant patents. The applications are forwarded to regional patent offices.

The patents are based on simple procedures, but are incredibly broad in their claims.

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The rest here: http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/4208/Monsanto_files_patent_for_new_invention_the_pig

Pretty soon the corporations will own a patent on life itself...

Just as the RNC intended.

[El Fuego]

1. Monsanto already patented soybeans

They tried to sue a farmer for patent infringement when the wind blew Monsanto seeds into his soybean field and he inadvertently grew them.

Fortunately, Monsanto lost!

http://www.percyschmeiser.com/

What will they try to patent next, bacon?

[Redstone]

2. Monsanto is the single most evil entity on the face of the earth today,

And that's saying a lot.

The people who run that company simply CANNOT be human; if they were, they'd not be able to look at themselves in a mirror.

Redstone

[fortress]

3. so this means

that that pig-f-ing greedhead swine S.O.B. in the White House will be patented?