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27th May 2008
Patent for a Pig
Once again corporations are doing what they know how to do best: place a trademark stamp on everything they can get their hands on.
Here's a documentary about Monsanto's efforts to patent living genetic material (just because they cracked an animal's DNA code and can alter it a little), as if they were the ones that created it! They're doing the same with plant life too.
If it were possible they would charge us for the air we breathe; that may not be very far off, as a personal "carbon-tax" is being contemplated in a bid to make us "greener".
Link update (6th June 08) - Patenting Life (Michael Crichton's article)