Patenting Life by Michael Crichton
I got flamed for pointing out how evil Monsanto is. That’s ok. I know they are, and no one will convince me otherwise.
And Obama will protect them at almost any cost.
The ruling has implications for many aspects of modern agriculture and for businesses based on vaccines, cell lines and software.
How long before we will have to pay a fee to a software or computer company for the products, services and advertising we use them for?
Soy is awful, and not good for you. And unfortunately, it’s in everything, it’s a cheap filler.
I hate the stuff.
What happens to ownership of plants that are used for seed after being cross pollinated by bees or wind? Does Monsanto own the new variant too?
Not sure I agree with the court, though I don’t know the particulars. If he had signed the contract agreeing not to retain seeds, then he should abide by those terms for plants from seeds he purchased in connection with that contract. If he got seeds from somewhere else which may or may not have had their IP in its genes, seems like if they have any complaint at all, it would be with whomever allowed those seeds to get into the pool available for sale to the public without agreeing to that contract.
Kagan the lesbian Communist comes up with the typical liberal, criminal explanation for why, as usual, they contradict conservative common sense: “It’s COMPLICATED!”
You can kill babies because “it’s complicated.” You can violate thousands of years of history and call it gay marriage because “it’s complicated.” You can destroy hundreds of years of accepted legal principles because “it’s complicated.”
And then, in a quieter voice: “Now pay me the money, Monsanto.”
I didn’t go to the NYT to read the rest of the article, but it sounds to me like had the farmer not signed the contract, he would have been free to plant the animal feed and harvest the roundup-resistant seed produced.
Wow.
Life is now owned.
Just wait to the corporation starts claiming that they own people who ate GMO food.
Pretty much a no-brainier; and the correct decision.
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How did the supremes know that he hadn’t simply selected ordinary soybean mutations for roundup resistance thus replicating the process (which can’t be patented) that Monsanto used to find the resistant strain in the first place? Anyone can select for anti-biotic resistant microbes. just plate bacteria on a culture with a low level of antibiotic. Take the survivors and repeat at a higher concentration of antibiotic until you have your anti-biotic resistant yersinia pestis ready to market. Same with soybeans. More expensive since you have to use a LOT of soybeans (but a lot safer), but no reason that anyone can’t do exactly that.
Will the last small farm owner please turn out the lights on your way out.
Avoid soy, genetically altered or not, as much as you possibly can, and doubly so for children. It turns your boys into girls, and your girls into women (too early). It couldn’t be worse for you, and it is in almost all processed foods.
I am a hobby farmer (actually, my wife is, she does all the work). We have planted Roundup Ready soybeans. The seeds are not cheap, but they have a good yield, and Roundup keeps the weeds at bay which means that the field needs very little attention between planting and harvest. So, even though we pay for the seed, pay a neighbor to plant and harvest, and pay the COOP for Roundup treatment, most years there’s some money left over after the crop is delivered to the grain elevator.
This guy was trying to get the economic advantages of the Roundup Ready seed without paying for it. He knew that the soybeans that he was buying from his local elevator was Monsanto seed, he wouldn’t have bought it otherwise.
I’m a little surprised that the elevator would sell it to him. I don’t think that ours would do this.