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Human genes are part of nature, not a human invention
(NaturalNews) This is one of the most important issues for the future of
human civilization: Who owns your genetic code? Based on existing U.S.
law, the corporations own it. Right now, over 20% of your genetic code
This
is a major reversal of decades of U.S. policy. If the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) enforces this new ruling, it would mean an end
to all biotech patents on human genes. Effectively, it would set our genetic code free from corporate domination. is owned by biotech corporations (this is a fact). But the U.S. Justice
Department has just issued a "friend of the court" briefing that looks
poised to overturn this, driving a stake through the heart of the
intellectual property monster known as the biotech industry.
In its brief, the Dept of Justice argued that genes should not be patentable because they are part of nature:
"The
chemical structure of native human genes is a product of nature, and it
is no less a product of nature when that structure is 'isolated' from
its natural environment than are cotton fibers that have been separated from cotton seeds or coal that has been extracted from the earth..."https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packag...)
This makes sense, of course -- it's the same thing I've been arguing here on NaturalNews for years. To allow corporations to own even a small part of the human genome is a pathway to human slavery.
We have been headed down that path for a long time, and now for the
first time it appears things may be turning for the better.The insanity of modern patent law
Few
reasonable people would argue that U.S. patent law as it exists today
makes any real sense in the first place. Patents are supposed to offer
legal protection for "man-made inventions." The whole idea that you can patent human genes is ridiculous from the outset.
Human
genetic code was obviously not invented by humans, and especially not
by one person or corporation. To grant a corporation an intellectual property monopoly over even a single human gene is an affront to human heritage
and a violation of natural law. That this has already happened is a
crime against humanity.
Theoretically, such patents actually give corporations the right to charge royalties when couples reproduce because by having a baby,
you are "replicating" a patented gene without permission. Thus, you
could be guilty of patent violation and be forced to pay a royalty to
the patent owner.
Fast forward this a few decades under a country controlled by corporate interests, and you can see where it ends up: Just to have a baby, you might have to pay $100,000 in royalty payments to dozens of different corporations who own "your" genetic code. This
would all be enforced by local police officers and sheriffs who might
arrest you at gunpoint for your acts of "corporate piracy" (getting
pregnant).
Don't think it could happen? Check out the history of the RIAA and its intellectual property war against the people. Look at what Monsanto has done to farmers who accidentally grew GMO crops because the GMO seeds blew into their fields. Look what Myriad Genetics is doing right now with its patent on human breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 -- it's charging $3,000 a pop to run a simple test that determines whether women carry those genes.
Make no mistake: When you hand monopoly control to a corporation, that corporation will exploit it to its
fullest extent, even if it means destroying human lives in the process.Why stop at genes? Seeds should also be set free
If the USPTO disallows all patents on human genes, then by the same logic there should be no patents allowed on seeds or animals, either. The patenting of seeds is yet another method by which powerful corporations like Monsanto and DuPont may effectively enslave the human race by controlling the food supply.
To remove patent protection from seeds is to destroy the seed monopolies that these dangerous, destructive corporations depend on to enforce
their control over the seed supply. And it is due to patent protection
on seeds that we have already lost a tremendous amount of seed diversity in the agricultural seed markets.
Patents on genes and seeds are the enemy of freedom. They are the shackles that keep farmers and consumers enslaved by corporate interests. To see that these
patents now have the potential to be disallowed entirely gives us a
glimmer of hope that corporate domination over the human race may be
effectively resisted.
Because, let's face it: If governments of the world continue to hand over our genes, seeds and medicines to the monopolistic, greed-driven corporations that have already destroyed our farms, contaminated our food supply and poisoned our bodies with synthetic chemicals,
then the People of the world will ultimately be driven to the point of
armed, violent resistance against their corporate oppressors. There is
only so much tyranny the People will take before they rise up against
their oppressors and fight back.
Today's decision by the Dept of
Justice may have averted that future bloodshed scenario -- at least over
the issue of genes and seeds. Long-term peace can only emerge when the
People have their freedom and do not feel as if they are living under
the threat of constant oppression by governments, corporations or other
institutions of power. Every social revolution in the history of human civilization has involved a popular uprising against institutions that violated natural law and human freedom. And patents on genes and seeds are a violation of natural law.
Patents on many of Big Pharma's drugs are also a violation of natural law
For
several years now, I have publicly called for all patents on genes,
seeds and animals to be declared invalid. I've even gone further,
calling for all patents on medicines to also be declared invalid, although such a move is highly unlikely to take place anytime soon.
Can you imagine what would happen to Big Pharma if all the chemicals they stole from Mother Nature and then patented were suddenly declared "open source?"
Big Pharma would collapse within a year, and the citizens of the USAnatural medicine that works rather than conventional medicine forced upon them under a monopolistic racket protected by the FDA and the USPTO.
Medicine
should belong to the People, especially when much of it is sourced from
plants in the first place. I believe that the People have a natural
right to water, natural medicine, seeds and their
own genes, too. To impede the public's access to such natural, global
resources is a violation of natural law and should be resisted by any
and all means necessary.
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