On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:08:38 -0500, "cat daddy"
wrote:

Great news, Charlie!!! This has taken too long to rectify and has global
repercussions.

Global, indeed. On another front, Monster-santo has been screwing
poor farmers in Third World countries for decades. They sell them
hybrid seed so farmers will have to buy new seed every year instead of
taking their own seed and replanting, as farmers have done for
millennia. No doubt M cuts deals with local dictators/oligarchs.

Monsanto also acquires the "water rights" in poor countries and makes
people who used to draw from their own springs and wells BUY Monsanto
water, when they can barely eat and send their children to school.

See Mother Jones article a few years back.

Persephone



Screw Monsanto.....

Charlie wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:51:23 -0600, Amos Nomore
wrote:

Monsanto makes Charlie.......CRAZIER!

Your intentions are honorable and yes, Monsanto sucks the Grand Wazoo.

MONSANTO PATENTS ASSERTED AGAINST AMERICAN FARMERS REJECTED BY PATENT
OFFICE:

PUBPAT Initiated Review Leads PTO to Find All Claims of All Four Patents
Invalid

http://www.pubpat.org/monsantorejections.htm

NEW YORK July 24, 2007 -- The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT)
announced
today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected
four key
Monsanto patents related to genetically modified crops that PUBPAT
challenged
last year because the agricultural giant is using them to harass,
intimidate,
sue - and in some cases literally bankrupt - American farmers. In its
Office
Actions rejecting each of the patents, the USPTO held that evidence
submitted
by PUBPAT, in addition to other prior art located by the Patent Office's
Examiners, showed that Monsanto was not entitled to any of the patents.

Monsanto has filed dozens of patent infringement lawsuits asserting the
four
challenged patents against American farmers, many of whom are unable to
hire
adequate representation to defend themselves in court. The crime these
farmers
are accused of is nothing more than saving seed from one year's crop to
replant
the following year, something farmers have done since the beginning of
time.
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