> From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
>
> ... it is a more
> complex thing that just getting some seed off a plant that pops up in your
> front yard.
Actually, no:
"... there is an alarming new trend for patents not only to be claimed on GMOs
(such as Round-up ready soybeans), but also on conventional plants... Some of
the most threatening examples in this context are patent applications from
Syngenta which claim huge parts of the rice genome and its use in breeding of
any food crops that have similar genomic information to rice (such as maize and
wheat)."
http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=27
The world of industrial food is actually quite a bit more fascist and
controlling than your benign suggestion that it's similar to copyright
protection of a photograph.
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animals as it sensibly can. -- Wendell Berry
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