On Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 2:32:30 PM UTC-5, Bob F wrote:
trader_4 wrote:
You're asleep again. Patenting life forms isn't something new.
It's been going on a very long time. The Haas avocado is a good
example. That was developed and the tree patented back in the
30's. I suppose Mr. Haas, who developed it, should have given
it to the world for free? He patented it, sold it, protected
it and obviously it had nothing to do with GMO. Any other myths
I need to demolish this morning? Good grief.

Have some more fun.

Happy to oblige. Like a typical distortionist, you left out the
most important, key parts from what you quoted:

"The Schmeisers, like hundreds of thousands of farmers all over the world, were using their canola (oilseed rape) seed from year to year and developing new varieties suitable for climatic soil conditions on the prairies. "

"The pre-trial took two years to go to court in which Monsanto claimed that despite having no knowledge of Percy Schmeiser ever having obtained any GM seed, he must have used their seed on his 1 030 acres of land because ninety-eight percent of the land was GM contaminated. And, because the Schmeisers had contaminated their own seed supply with Monsanto seed, ownership of the Schmeisers seed supply reverted to Monsanto under patent law."

So, this "farmer" was developing seed too and just happened to wind up
with 98% of his crop innocently containing Monsanto GMO? Sorry, I don't
buy it and neither did the courts. It's possible he didn't know what
was going on. But even so, the genetic material rights belong to whomever
is the legitimate owner. It's like finding Catcher in the Rye on
your front lawn, using it as a source, modifying it a bit, then using it
for commercial purposes, and bitching when JD Salinger shows up enforcing
his copyright.

Next!