Re: [CH] Patenting tepins?

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--- Margaret Lauterbach <melauter@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> I checked Redwood City Seeds' website to see if they
> were bragging about 
> having patented tepin chile seeds.  Nothing there. 
> It is possible, 
> unfortunately, because the way our present patent
> laws (maybe it's the 
> international patent laws) are written, the
> mega-seed companies are 
> "patenting" seeds for crops Andean farmers have
> grown for 
> centuries.  Popping beans, for instance.  The
> farmers are justly furious, 
> and so am I.  It seems to me if someone has created
> something, they should 
> have the right to patent it.  If they find
> something, they shouldn't.  If 

How about the fact that those wonderful (satanic)
"life science" companies, pharmaceutical companies,
and others are patenting human genes (DNA sequences
and more).  Yep, *your* genes may be patented to
someone else.

Peace, Hendrix, and Chiles.......
Rael64

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