[Duurzaamlijst] Monsanto vs Mother Earth
Boyd Noorda (privé-adres: zie sociamedia.nl)
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Vr Apr 12 17:24:29 CEST 2013
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One million against Monsanto patents in 36 hours! let's build the
biggest petition to stop Monsanto ever. Tell everyone.
Dear Avaazers,
It´s unbelievable, but Monsanto and Co. are at it again. These
profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to gain exclusive
control over the seeds of life - the source of our food. They´re
trying to patent away varieties of our everyday vegetables and
fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay
them for sed and risk being sued if they donTMt.
But we can stop them from buying up Mother Earth. Companies like
Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to have exclusive
rights over conventional seeds, so we just need to close them shut
before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we
need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where
opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop
MonsantoTMs greedy plans. The Avaaz community has shifted governments
before, and we can do it again.
Many farmers and politicians are already against this -- we just
need to bring in people power to pressure these countries to keep
Monsanto´s hands off our food. Sign now and share with everyone to
help build the biggest food defense call ever:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_rb/?bLLynbb&v=24005
Once a patent exists in one country, trade agreements and
negotiations often push other countries to honour it as well. That´s
why patents change everything about how our food chain works: for
thousands of years, farmers could choose which seeds they´d use
without worrying about getting sued for violating intellectual
property rights. But now, biotech companies are getting patents on
the seeds and then charging farmers exorbitant royalty fees. And
farmrs canTMt even save patented seeds for replanting the next
season -- Monsanto has sued hundreds of them for practicing the
ageold art of seed-saving and plant breeding. Monsanto and Co.
claim that patents drive innovation -- but in fact they create a
corporate monopoly of our food.
But luckily, the European Patent Office is controlled by 38 member
states who, with one vote, can end dangerous patents on food that is
bred using conventional methods. Even the European Parliament has
issued a statement objecting to these kinds of destructive patents.
Now, a massive wave of public outcry could push them to ban the
patenting of our everyday food for good.
The situation is dire already -- Monsanto alone owns 36% of all
tomato, 32% of sweet pepper and 49% of cauliflower varieties
registered in the EU. With a simple regulatory change, we could
protect our food, our farmers and our planet from corporate control
-- and it's up to us to make it happen:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_rb/?bLLynbb&v=24005
The Avaaz community has never been afraid to stand up to corporate
capture of our institutions, from pushing back the Rupert Murdoch
mafia, to helping ensure that telecoms keep their hands off our
Internet. Now it´s time to defend our food supply from this
corporate takeover.
With hope and determination,
Jeremy, Michelle, Oli, Dalia, Pascal, Ricken, Diego and the whole
Avaaz team
SOURCES:
Conventionally-bred plants or animals should be exempt from patents,
say MEPs (EU Parliament)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pressroom/content/20120509IPR4
4733/html/Conventionally-bred-plants-or-animals-should-be-exempt-fro
m-patents-say-MEPs
President of the European Patent Office gives green light for
patents on plants and animals (No Patents on Seeds)
http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/information/background/green-l
ight-for-patents-on-plants-and-animals
Monsanto: All Your Seeds Belong to Us (Mother Jones)
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/02/scotus-hears-monsanto
-soybean-case
Seeds and Patents on Life (World Agriculture Report)
http://www.globalagriculture.org/index.php?id=2156
Structures and developments of the swiss and international seed
markets through the a case study on certain vegetables varieties
(Berne decleration, Swissaid and others) (German only)
http://www.evb.ch/cm_data/Saatgutmarkt_Juni_2012.pdf
Plant Patentability Questions Deepen In EPO Tomato Patent Case (IP
Watch)
http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/06/13/plant-patentability-questions-dee
pen-in-epo-tomato-patent-case/
Tomato patent back before EPO´s Enlarged Board of Appeal
(Europolitics)
http://europolitics.eis-vt-prod-web01.cyberadm.net/business-competit
iveness/tomato-patent-back-before-epo-s-enlarged-board-of-appeal-art
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