How does everyone feel about this. Biotech companies engineering living organisms and throwing a patent on them? DNA Patents Create Monopolies on Living Organisms (ActionBioscience)
No one should be able to patent human life, there are certain limits that must be set. But we have had patents for new and important strains of fruits and vegetables and domesticated animals for centuries. Agro-technology would cease to exist if developers could not profit from their work.
that isn't scary to you? Patenting nature? What's next? Patenting animals? Isn't a precedent being set by allowing biotech companies to patent natural things?
I personally don't like it but I believe this cannot be stopped. It is human nature to learn and discover and apply this knowledge to whatever end. One part of human conscious wants to know the intricacies of life and another part wants to profit from it. It always has been. The Church couldn't stop it and the courts can't stop it either. Maybe another medieval age can set the clocks back.
Man, you have been eating hybrid corn and hybrid beef all your life. People get patents on new developments. I can concede that human life deserves special consideration, but the notion that every vegetable or hog is a sacred life makes no sense to me.
I get that, but why should a company get to put a patent on it? And plus, these corporations create Terminator seeds, which produce plants with sterile seeds, so you have to repurchase.
13. Anything worth doing is worth doing for money. 45. Expand, or die. 89. Ask not what your profits can do for you, but what you can do for your profits. 97. Enough ... is never enough. 202. The justification for profit is profit. .... from the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
