Topic patents
Genetically Modified Food — Panacea or Poison?
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In the "race to feed the planet", scientists have discovered how to manipulate DNA and produce what they claim are stronger, more disease-resistant crops. However, fears that Genetically Modified Food may not be safe for humans or the environment has sparked intense protest. Are we participating in a dangerous global nutritional experiment? This film asks is the question -- is the production of genetically modified food a panacea for world hunger or a mass poisoning of the worlds food supply?
Monsanto — Patent For A Pig
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Patent applications for the "Monsanto Pig" were published in February 2005 at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva. A Greenpeace researcher who monitors patent applications, Christoph Then, uncovered the fact that Monsanto is seeking patents not only on methods of breeding, but on actual breeding herds of pigs as well as the offspring that result. And as the seeds of the world are slowly being taken over by Monsanto, the company is aiming to extend its control to animals by patenting and thus privatising gene sequences -- all of which are found and occur naturally and are not invented...
The Future of Food
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"The Future of Food distils the complex technology and key regulatory, legal, ethical, environmental and consumer issues surrounding the troubling changes happening in the food system today — genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporate takeover of food. In 2010 as we take note of where we stand and look toward the future, the issues raised in The Future of Food are more pressing than ever. The corporate control of agriculture and the seed supply is meeting more and more resistance all around the world"...
The Corporation
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What kind of person is the corporation? Since the current day legal status of the corporation is a person, what would happen if it sat down with a psychiatrist to discuss its behaviour and attitude towards society, culture and the environment? Explored through specific examples, this film shows how the modern day business corporation has developed into the dominant institution of our time...
The World According to Monsanto
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Monsanto seems to be stopping at nothing: Corn, Wheat, Soy Beans, Canola, Mustard, Okra, Bringe oil, Rice, Cauliflower -- once they have established the norm, all these seeds can be owned as their property, royalties will be collected and enforced by patent law. If Monsanto controls seed, they control food and they know it. It’s strategic. It’s more powerful than bombs, it’s more powerful than guns. This is their way to control the populations of the world...
David vs Monsanto
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Imagine that a storm blows across your garden - and that now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished and maintained for over 50 years. A few days later, representatives of a large multi-national corporation secretly visit your home, only to return later and demand that you surrender all your vegetables and seeds. Then, they file a lawsuit against you for the illegal use of patented and genetically-modified seeds that you never planted or used and, what's more -- the court rules in favour of the corporation...
Patently A Problem
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The human genome is being privatised. Another corporate takeover. The genetic sequences that make up you and me are being patented and one Australian company, a hot item on the stock market, is aggressively enforcing a suite of patents that affect an extraordinary 95 percent of every living creature's DNA. The company claims most laboratories around the world are infringing its patents -- nature itself included -- and the company is now trying to charge licence fees for this...
The Biotech Revolution
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The vast majority of scientists working in genetics and biotechnology repeatedly promise "unprecedented health benefits and longevity for all", amongst other things, while justifying their work in the "biotechnology revolution". But isn't this "revolution" simply the prospect of a Frankenstein-style future that is dominated by genetically modified people? Will we evolve into a new species and transcend our history to one of inclusion and harmony? Or, will we simply end up in a world that is further divided -- by genetic apartheid?