Monsanto To Face Biopiracy Charges In India

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Monsanto to face biopiracy charges in India. - GreenMedInfo Summary



Abstract Source:
Nat Biotechnol. 2012 ;30(1):11. Epub 2012 Jan 9. PMID: 22231080

Abstract Author(s):
Lucas Laursen

Abstract:
An Indian government agency has agreed to sue the developers of genetically modified (GM) eggplant for violating India's Biological Diversity Act of 2002. India's National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is alleging that the developers of India's first GM food crop—Jalna-based Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company (Mahyco) partnered with St. Louis–based seed giant Monsanto and several local universities—used local varieties to develop the transgenic crop, but failed to gain the appropriate licenses for field trials. At the same time, activists in Europe are claiming that patents on conventionally bred plants, including a melon found in India, filed by biotech companies violate farmers' rights to use naturally occurring breeds. Both these pending legal cases could set important precedents for biopiracy in India and Europe. In another development in early November, the Munich-based European Patent Office referred to its Enlarged Board of Appeals a case involving conventionally bred tomatoes, which will likely shape any future enforcement of the Monsanto-owned melon patent, says Christoph Then, spokesman for advocacy group No Patents on Seeds. “It is a signal that the European Patent Office has severe doubts about this kind of patent,” he says.

The original article has been posted by the author to his site: http://lucaslaursen.com/clips/brinjalbiopiracy.pdf

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1. K&R nt

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2. Monsanto needs to be stopped.

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5. Stopped, liquidated, assets seized, top management thrown in prison, and laws passed

against any such company ever coming into existence again.

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7. Yes, wouldn't that be a wonderful day?

Monsanto has wreaked so much damage already. The positive things they have done pale in comparison to the frightening messes they have made. Environmental terrrorism.

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3. Don't tell me it's time for a trade war with India, too

The US recently became very unhappy with France over their no-GMO corn policy, essentially declaring a trade war on behalf of Monsanto.

http://wakeup-world.com/2012/01/10/leaked-cable-us-to-start-%E2%80%98trade-wars%E2%80%99-with-nations-opposed-to-monsanto-gmo-crops/

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4. I'll accept a trade war against the US as long as it helps us put Monsato out of business.

Monsato will destroy the world's food supply.

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6. Everybody and Every country are onto this

Europe will stop Monsanto

and India and China and Russia etc...till only America will have GMO that nobody wants