Biotech Company To Patent Pigs

Anonymous Swine writes "Monsanto, a US based multinational biotech company, is causing a stir by its plan to patent pig-breeding techniques including the claim on animals born by the techniques. 'Agricultural experts are scrambling to assess how these patents might affect the market, while consumer activists warn that if the company is granted pig-related patents, on top of its tight rein on key feed and food crops, its control over agriculture could be unprecedented. "We're afraid that Monsanto and other big companies are getting control of the world's genetic resources," said Christoph Then, a patent expert with Greenpeace in Germany. The patent applications, filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization, are broad in scope, and are expected to take several years and numerous rewrites before approval.'"

Comments

Where's my flying car?

[QuantumG]

And still I have to wait for the future. Better method for breeding pigs? How about making bacon (and pork chops and all the other piggy goodness!) without breeding? Where's that cholesterol free bacon we were promised?

I keep waiting for the militant vegans to give up ignoring the problem (which is all abstinence does) and move to economically crush their enemies - that's what boycotting is supposedly for after all, not that it works. Buy meat from organic farms that treat animals with the respect they say animals deserve. Demand more such farms. Then demand new and better techniques for getting meat without harming animals.. like genetically engineering animals to grow fat meaty tails that drop off, or something. Then, eventually, demand meat production in vats that doesn't even need an animal brain.

Shouldn't biotech companies be making vat grown meat by now? With everything that is happening in biotech, "farming" pigs should be laughable. It should be compared to plowing a field with horse power.

Re:patented bacon

[Hurricane78]

A priest, a rabbi, and a terrorist

Isn't that redundant somehow?