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Insanity.  Un-frickin’-believable.  Here’s an excerpt from the article.

Corporate Greed, Intellectual Property Laws and the Destruction of Human Civilization  (newstarget.com)

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Did you know that if you have children you are an international criminal? You have violated intellectual property laws by infringing on the copyrights of companies that have been granted patents on the human genome. You have replicated that gene sequence by having children without the permission of the owners of those gene sequences. As bizarre as it sounds, it’s absolutely true: having children is a violation of patent law.

This has come about because those at the U.S. Patent Office seem to have lost their collective minds. They have allowed companies and individuals to gain ownership of intellectual property that should never have been granted to a private organization or individual. Some things belong to nature — like the gene sequence of a human being. Man didn’t create it. There’s no Einstein who created the human gene sequence, put together some DNA and made human beings. People are not an invention; they are a creation.

Intellectual property, and patents in particular, are intended to cover inventions; things that we were the first to create, not something we stumbled across because we have the right equipment to detect them in the natural world. Clearly, genes are already in existence. We did not invent them; nature did. And yet, people and organizations have been granted patents on seeds from nature.

No patents on seeds

Those of you familiar with the subject know I’m talking about basmati rice, a type of rice native to India. It has been harvested for centuries throughout India and Southeast Asia. But a few years ago, a U.S. company filed for a patent on basmati rice and the U.S. Patent Office said, “Sure enough, you own it.” That company then proceeded to try to shut down the harvesting and farming of basmati rice in India. They said, in effect, “All you farmers out there? You owe us a royalty now. We own the patent on this seed.” Luckily, the Indian government intervened and thwarted the patent by having the rice listed under the European Commission’s regulations that protect regional foods.

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