PARENTAL ALERT-SOME COLORFUL LANGUAGE USED BELOW....this is an excerpt from an article detailing a trade agreement between US and other Latin countries....the agreement, obviously had Monsanto tentacles all over it...is being resisted by signatory countries...rightly so....dont even get me started on Monsanto...and the creeps in Washington who would allow such garbage to be in a trade agreement....this gets my blood boiling...basically my message to our govt. is YOU SUCK..youre all gangsters....read this... The ‘Law for the Protection of New Plant Varieties,’ dubbed the ‘Monsanto Law’ by critics for its formidable seed-privatization provisions, is an obligation for all nations that signed the 2005 CAFTA-DR free trade agreement between Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and the United States. The agreement requires signatories to adhere to the International Convention for the Protection of New Plant Varieties. The law offers producers of transgenic seeds, often corporate behemoths like Monsanto, strict property rights in the event of possession or exchange of original or harvested seeds of protected varieties without the breeder’s authorization. A breeder’s right extends to “varieties essentially derived from the protected variety,” thus, a hybrid of a protected and unprotected seed belongs to the protected seed’s producer. The Rural Studies Collective (Cer-Ixim) warned that the law would monopolize agriculture processes, severely threaten food sovereignty – especially those of indigenous peoples – and would sacrifice national biodiversity “under the control of domestic and foreign companies.” The National Alliance for Biodiversity Protection said in July that the law is unconstitutional “because it violates the rights of peoples. It will benefit transnational seed companies such as Monsanto, Duwest, Dupont, Syngenta, etc.”
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:05:24 +0000
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