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The most ludicrous part of all of this is that you can patent biology.
by bsimpson 14y ago
The most ludicrous part of all of this is that you can patent biology.
- mbreese 14y agoThis isn't natural biology... it's engineered biology. That's a big difference.
- bsimpson 14y agoThen they should engineer it to be seedless too so they don't have this problem. I really can't believe we're living in a society where a corporation can successfully use the courts to make natural reproduction illegal.
- mbreese 14y agoThey didn't make reproduction illegal. They confirmed that Monsanto's patent lets them restrict how you can use the products of reproduction (beans/seed). These beans wouldn't naturally exist if it weren't for Monsanto. It would be extremely difficult to produce a soy bean that didn't produce seeds... since that's the bean part. This is very different from the Myriad BRCA1 patent where they patented a naturally occurring mutation in humans. In Monsanto's case, they actually produced something that was novel - an herbicide resistant soy bean.
- indiefan 14y agoWhat scares me is that you know they're working on doing precisely this, and eventually they will probably be successful.