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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.'"
It better taste good
Its not my fault, someone put a wall in my way.
I was going to suggest some prior art, but I realized that cowboy neal has never been laid.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
At least they have balls. I mean, file a patent for the oldest concept humankind has?
I wish they die a horrible death, but only because it wasn't my idea.
The practices Monsanto wants to patent basically involve identifying genes that result in desirable traits in swine, breeding animals to achieve those traits and using a specialized device to inseminate sows deeply in a way that uses less sperm than is typically required.
Umm I think nature invented that device a long time ago....
They patented prostitution?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
No, it went like this:
1. Invent sex
2. Invent money
3. start charging for 1
4. Profit.
Yes, they figured out ????
sorry, i patented death around 6000BC and have held it ever since. the pending patent infringement lawsuit and subsequent damages award will be newsworthy, let me tell you..
You mean 4000 BC. The Earth is only 6000 years old.
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True, the pen is mightier than the pork sword.
But that means he patented death even before God thought of it. And that means he existed even before God created Adam. The ways of the Lord are surely incomprehensible.
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