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Global Warning of MONSANTO's new Patents to Monopolize GMO Food by restricting OrganicBIO Food
> Global alert against 'Monsantosizing' our food
> UN General Assembly to discuss patents on seeds and right to food
>
> 21 October 2009. Today a global alert is being filed by farmers and
> development and environmental organisations warning about a new class of
> patents covering plants and animals and endangering innovation and food
> security. It is being presented on just the same day as the UN Special
> Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier de Schutter, is presenting his
> new report in front of the UN General Assembly, warning that seed patents
> might increase food crises. New rules to restrict patents on seeds and
> animals therefore have to be enacted urgently.
>
> The global appeal is being filed by the international coalition "no
> patents on seeds", organised and supported by farmers and development and
> environmental organisations. The alert is directed at governments,
> parliaments and patent offices like the European Patent Office, and warns
> about a new class of patents covering plants and animals derived from
> conventional breeding. These patents even claim harvests and derived food
> products such as milk, butter and bread. By speaking of 'Monsantosizing'
> the signatories are warning that the whole chain from seed to food
> production might be controlled by a few big international companies like
> Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta, leading to a process of oligopolies and
> increasing concentration.
>
> "A radical change in both patent legislation and the practice of patent
> offices is needed to eliminate patents on plants and farm animals," says
> François Meienberg of the Berne Declaration. "Corporations should not be
> allowed to continue to misappropriate and monopolise seeds, plants and
> farm animals via patent law. If they are, these patents will become a
> major threat to global food security, food sovereignty and innovation."
>
> The alert was initiated by the organisations Berne Declaration, Swissaid,
> Misereor No Patents on Life , Greenpeace and The Development Fund
> (Norway), and is supported by farmer organisations from Europe, South
> America and Asia. They include Coldiretti in Italy, COAG in Spain, dairy
> farmers from Germany, Federación Agraria Argentina and Bharat Krishak
> Samaj, an Indian farmer organisation. "The big companies are about to
> control seed, harvest, trade and even food production," warns Luis
> Contigiani at Federación Agraria Argentina. "We can see how Monsanto tries
> to license fees on soy production , imposing embargoes on European
> importers of Argentinian soy and derivatives based on patents that are not
> valid in our country. This is an example of the consequences when genetic
> resources are subjected to the logic of monopolisation by patent rights."
>
> UN General Assembly to discuss patents on seeds and right to food
>
> 21 October 2009. Today a global alert is being filed by farmers and
> development and environmental organisations warning about a new class of
> patents covering plants and animals and endangering innovation and food
> security. It is being presented on just the same day as the UN Special
> Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier de Schutter, is presenting his
> new report in front of the UN General Assembly, warning that seed patents
> might increase food crises. New rules to restrict patents on seeds and
> animals therefore have to be enacted urgently.
>
> The global appeal is being filed by the international coalition "no
> patents on seeds", organised and supported by farmers and development and
> environmental organisations. The alert is directed at governments,
> parliaments and patent offices like the European Patent Office, and warns
> about a new class of patents covering plants and animals derived from
> conventional breeding. These patents even claim harvests and derived food
> products such as milk, butter and bread. By speaking of 'Monsantosizing'
> the signatories are warning that the whole chain from seed to food
> production might be controlled by a few big international companies like
> Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta, leading to a process of oligopolies and
> increasing concentration.
>
> "A radical change in both patent legislation and the practice of patent
> offices is needed to eliminate patents on plants and farm animals," says
> François Meienberg of the Berne Declaration. "Corporations should not be
> allowed to continue to misappropriate and monopolise seeds, plants and
> farm animals via patent law. If they are, these patents will become a
> major threat to global food security, food sovereignty and innovation."
>
> The alert was initiated by the organisations Berne Declaration, Swissaid,
> Misereor No Patents on Life , Greenpeace and The Development Fund
> (Norway), and is supported by farmer organisations from Europe, South
> America and Asia. They include Coldiretti in Italy, COAG in Spain, dairy
> farmers from Germany, Federación Agraria Argentina and Bharat Krishak
> Samaj, an Indian farmer organisation. "The big companies are about to
> control seed, harvest, trade and even food production," warns Luis
> Contigiani at Federación Agraria Argentina. "We can see how Monsanto tries
> to license fees on soy production , imposing embargoes on European
> importers of Argentinian soy and derivatives based on patents that are not
> valid in our country. This is an example of the consequences when genetic
> resources are subjected to the logic of monopolisation by patent rights."
>
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