Submission + - Bio Rights Management
BINC writes: Wired has a good article this morning "Selective Breeding Gets Modern" at http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71433-0.htm l?tw=wn_index_2 Professor Atieri's comments in it are right on, but don't quite reach the root: The root of corporations is profit of their shareholders, as their charters make clear. The root cause of GM- and MAS-horror is the same thing for many. RIAA asserting ownership of all offspring is one thing, but an agricorp asserting the same thing of crops is — well, the same thing applied to human food. Just as record corporations have moved against mixes incorporating snippets of their property, Monsanto has already successfully claimed ownership of all Canola seed in which their patented gene has been mixed into natural varieties — and canola casts its pollen on the wind. "All your food is belong to us" is not an irrational fear; it is the clear handwriting on the wall if that legal precedent prevails, and what is to prevent it?
