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Cloning & Patenting

FDA Approves Food from Clones: Tell Grocers You Won't Buy It

The FDA may have lifted the ban on cloned meat, but that doesn't mean we have to accept cloned meat in our stores. Grocery stores will only stock cloned meat if it is profitable for them, and together we can make sure that it isn't. Let the grocery stores know that you intend to exercise your power as a consumer and vote with your pocketbook.

Supreme Court Rules Human Genes May Not Be Patented

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June 13, 2013
The Washington Post by Robert Barnes and Brady Dennis
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that human genes cannot be patented, a decision that is likely to shape the future of medical and biotech research. Read more

Groups: Beware Call for a 'Greener Revolution' From 'Purveyor of Poison'

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January 29, 2013
Common Dreams by Andrea Germanos
Liam Condon, CEO of Bayer CropScience, issued his call at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin this month, offering a five-pronged approach to this Greener Revolution that includes billions of dollars in investment in "cutting-edge... Read more

Groups Renew Demand to UN to Ban GE Trees

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October 2, 2012
Global Justice Ecology Project
Amsterdam, Netherlands / Montevideo, Uruguay /Buffalo, NY, US--At the Meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad, India, civil society organizations released a letter today to the CBD Executive Secretary demanding a... Read more

Should Monsanto be Able to Patent Genes?

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April 12, 2012
Red Green and Blue by Jeremy Bloom
Should a corporation be able to patent life and then legally restrict farmers from methods that have been used for 10,000 years? Read more

USDA 'Doesn't Know' if You Are Eating Cloned Meat

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April 9, 2012
Nation of Change by Anthony Gucciardi
It may come as a surprise, but you may be consuming cloned meat on a regular basis. In fact, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (head of the USDA) says that he has no idea whether or not cloned meat has been sold inside the United States - or even... Read more

BASF Tries (again) to Push 'Frankenpotatoes' on Europe

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November 26, 2011
Natural News by Jonathan Benson
Europeans have made it abundantly clear time and time again that they want nothing to do with genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). But chemical giant BASF refuses to take no for an answer, and is once again pushing for EU approval of a ... Read more

ACLU Will Take Gene Patent Case to Supreme Court

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October 14, 2011
IPS News by Amanda Wilson
When Jaydee Hanson, then-bioethics director for the United Methodist Church, spoke out publicly against gene patents over 15 years ago, some in the biotech industry compared his stance to the Catholic Church's persecution of Galileo, the 15th... Read more

The Problem With Patents

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June 15, 2011
Forbes by J. Maureen Henderson
Kevin Drum wonders if patents really slow down innovation and growth to a degree that anyone should be all that worried Read more

Clash Leaves Cloned Meats Unregulated Across the European Union

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March 29, 2011
Environment News Service
Meat from the offspring of cloned animals could appear in stores across the European Union, with no one being any the wiser, after Member State government representatives early this morning refused the European Parliament's demand to label clone... Read more

Farmers and Seed Producers Launch Preemptive Strike against Monsanto

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March 30, 2011
The Cornucopia Institute
On behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations, the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) filed suit today against Monsanto Company challenging the chemical giant's patents on genetically modified seed. The... Read more
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