Patent For a Pig: The Big Business of Monsanto
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Documentary concerning the controversy surrounding the experimental science of genetic modification by biotechnology corporations and the food industry.
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May 10th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
This is absurd.
May 10th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
how scary is this!!
May 11th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Monsanto wishes to ‘patent’ life?!? Well then, they will have to take the consequences of what life has to offer.
I think if I had any connections to this company I would begin to look over both my shoulders rather more frequently than is normal, as there are only two ways to deal with Monsanto and both of them are not pretty . . .
May 13th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Thanks for sending me the link to this video, much appreciated. I’ve posted it along with an article from Greenpeace on the same topic.
Cheers,
Lo
May 27th, 2008 at 3:11 am
After the pig, of course, comes the cow, the sheep, the chicken, the turkey, the horse, in no particular order. Then we start with fish.
If we -let- these idiots get away with it, they will patent everything they see.
Where is the religious right in all this? Isn’t that blasphemy: patenting a creature of god?
It is high time we put some pressure on our lawless politicians and tell them that enough is enough.
After Monsanto gets its patent, as they get everything they want because they buy all the politicians first, we have to start farming pigs and manifestly refuse to pay Monsanto one red cent.
Monsanto is able to cow and browbeat all the small farmers because the small farmers don’t come together as a group and tell Monsanto: blow me [us]. If they stood up for their rights as farmers [and we've been farming for only, what, 15000 years?] and did not allow themselves to be abused by a corporation they would get somewhere.
June 17th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Doesn’t food-terrorism fall under category “TERRORISM”?
If so does the USA protect terrorists? How odd!
June 19th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
The book “When Corporations Rule the World” first alerted me to the danger of Monsanto. The book spoke as if this were a future happening, but, as this movie clearly shows, it has already happened. I am also concerned that the tobacco-owned company General Foods might link up with Monsanto, thus having almost total control over food growing and marketing. I have for some time tried to alert the politicians in my home state of Victoria Australia, to the dangers inherent in GM, but with little success. I hope that, by referring them to your site, I might have better results in the future. America spawned Monsanto, now it is the duty of all Americans to crush it. While you’re at it – having a go at GE mightn’t be such a bad idea, either!!!
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:08 am
This is absolutley terrifying,demonic. The genetically modified food that they are feeding cattle renders them sterile,it will have the same effect, amongst others, on the humans that eat meat/grains that have been feed GM foods which will lead to genetically modified babies in laboratories because couples won’t be able to conceive in the traditional way and you can bet that Monsanto will make sure they have control on that too…….
November 11th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
what can we do? that’s what my father said.
he “said it is too late. The government is riddled with lobbyists and undercover agents working for corporations like this one.”
So i asked him ” why do you conform?” and i’ll ask you “why do you conform?”
My father continued saying that there was nothing he could do;that if I tried to do anything about it, these people would find a way to make me disappear.
what did sparticus do? what did queen elizabeth do? or more recently what did barack obama do? one person, made a change. as a society we can make a change, if we truly did not want these corporations in power, they wouldn’t be.
I was sad to hear my father’s words. he didn’t believe in himself or in the power of his voice. we can come together as we have in the past. there is substantial evidence from our past that has shown how thousands of people representing one idea made a drastic change.
world war two is a great example of how not only people but nations from around the world came together to fight off hitler and his troops. what would have happened if he was allowed to win? what if we all would have conformed?
my question is why are we conforming now? is it b cuz it is more comfortable not do anything about it? what has happened to our way of thinking? are there really more people like my father, who believe there is nothing he can do? and what about me? The only thing I can do is show this video to as many people as possible and hope they will do something about it; hope that they will also pass it on and hope that there are more people like me who believe in the power of their voice and in making a difference for a better world.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:04 am
If it is possible to line up Monsanto as to put them on trail and liquidate their assests to have them pay the people that they have injured over the many decades.. as if on a war trail scale.. I think I would be able to believe in justice in the world.. so many have gone up against them.. they have the money and influence.. but they ARE just a company.. they are protected by several different governmental interests in the name of “feeding the world” because they have stolen the life via the patent system, there is only one action the world can take… liquidate them… get rid of them.. and let them never return, nor their influence ever be felt.. heck there are whole countries which should be suing them right now.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:22 am
In the interest of fairness, please (and with an open mind) consider what Monsanto itself has to say about this.
http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto_today/for_the_record/pig_patent.asp
March 12th, 2009 at 10:28 am
NEWSFLASH….. Monsanto To Criminalize Organic Farming ?
March 30th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Is there anyway to get this on DVD? I need it in higher resolution so that I can show it to a class…
Thanks.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Click to watch: Islands at Risk: Genetic Engineering in Hawaii
June 8th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
This is the least of our concerns, did you know that vitamins are becoming illegal? codex alimentarius is working hard for that to happen. Dont believe me? look it up. Monsanto even says that no food shall be grown that monsanto doesn’t own. When are you people going to stop taking all this crap from them. We have to do something now before it is to late. Look up fema camps, and martial law. When something bad happens and trust me their working on the next inside job aka terrorist attack thats going to start martial law and all of us will be rounded up like sheep and be lead to the slaughter. Wake up sheeple before these demons take over.
June 19th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Never heard so much crap from 15 people in my life.
Think about what you people are listening to for a second.
For example Jerry Rosenman’s study about his pigs not giving birth because of GM feed. Basically that is the same feed that is fed to all other pig farms in the USA and similar to Canada. Pigs on everyone else’s farms are increasing their litter size all the while consuming the GM crops. The increase in litter size is from pig genetics and not from gm pigs by the way. His is only one of several thousand pig operations, think about it, can he be remotely right? Think think. Now this Andrew Kimbrell is just a self serving activist that will do anything to benefit himself.
November 11th, 2009 at 7:54 am
This corporation (like every corporation) is only concerned with profit margins and their stockholders. Morality is not profitable. Their is no way to succesfully overthrow a way of thinking that is highly profitable and powerful. If consumers decide that they will not buy, Monsanto loses control. Grow a garden, buy organic, spread the word. Or just lie down and give up, that seems to be America’s attitude lately anyway…No wonder the rest of the world hates us. :( fuck you monsanto):
November 11th, 2009 at 8:02 am
When the revolution comes, you will be the first up agaimst the wall. (monsanto)
January 9th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
You Monsanto apple OGM polisher, ask to all suited farmers their opinion than you can tell anything about other 15 in this list, what point you base defense, BAD SCIENCE, MONEY AND BUSH replublicans APPe behavior????..I hope you wont find Bio food around and earn your deserved prostate cancer…
April 22nd, 2010 at 6:03 am
Hank,
Farmers that stand up to Monsanto are crushed by their patent attorney’s. For example, Monsanto owns the soybean in America. If you try and wash beans from a previous years crop and grow your own beans, Monsanto private investigators find out and the framer is then sued for patent infringement. We are talking millions of dollars here, even a united group of farmers cannot fight them. Their only recourse would be to as a a whole stop growing ANYTHING, which would then starve the country. It’s now win for them.
That is why they want to patent the pig, they could then sue any pig farmer that tried to raise pigs independently of their GM pigs. Once they replace the majority of pig bredding stocks with their GM pig, pig farmers are screwed, just like the soybean farmers.
Watch the POV videos on food in the US…you probably will either stop eating or want to start your own small organic farm.