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RE: Bill Gates and the Uncertain Future of Food Security

in Deep Dives3 years ago

if he's not the devil he might as well be. Patenting plants in and of itself is not new or bad. If you make a new hybrid and very carefully describe its characteristics then you can patent that hybrid but you can't patent things that already existed.

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There are several examples of legal loopholes being exploited for the patenting of non genetically modified organisms: https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/information/news/european-patent-office-grant-monsanto-company-patent-tomatoes