In a move that has environmentalists and consumer advocates worried, one of the world’s most controversial corporations is looking to claim swine farming procedures as intellectual property.
From the always excellent NewStandardNews.net:
In what critics call a dangerous power grab, the Monsanto Company is seeking wide-ranging control over swine reproduction methods in the form of patents which, if granted, would give the corporation economic rights over any offspring produced using those techniques.
Documents obtained by Christoph Then, a Germany-based researcher for Greenpeace, show Monsanto’s attempts to secure broad intellectual property protection for swine herds. …
