Apr 15, 2012 -- 8:13PM, teilhard wrote:

Again ... YOU raised to Topic below -- "our Food Supply being copyrighted Property of a few large Corporations" and asked for Thoughts on this ...

I gave you mine ...  Get Over It ...

 

So,your thoughts on the prospects of corporations gaining control of the nation's food supply by copyrighting our food supply is that you're happy the SC outlawed patenting human genes?Um...well,OK then.

LOL.

Patent Law re: Living Things remains a Work-in-Progress ...

For several reasons, I don't think ANY Living Thing should be "Patented" ...

These Cases will be coming up for Review as Time goes on ...

The Recent SCOTUS Decision (note: 9 to 0 !!!) gives me Hope ...

Apr 16, 2012 -- 8:58AM, christzen wrote:

Apr 15, 2012 -- 8:13PM, teilhard wrote:

Again ... YOU raised to Topic below -- "our Food Supply being copyrighted Property of a few large Corporations" and asked for Thoughts on this ...

I gave you mine ...  Get Over It ...

 

 

So,your thoughts on the prospects of corporations gaining control of the nation's food supply by copyrighting our food supply is that you're happy the SC outlawed patenting human genes?Um...well,OK then.

 

LOL.

Yes ... I disagree with THAT Decision ...

As noted, this Legal Realm remains a Work in Progress ...

Apr 16, 2012 -- 12:11PM, Find1Answer wrote:

Apr 15, 2012 -- 5:50PM, christzen wrote:

Apr 15, 2012 -- 4:47PM, teilhard wrote:

I agree that issuing a Patent on a Living Thing is a BAD Idea -- for LOTS of Reasons ...

Fortunately, The SCOTUS recently outlawed -- 9 to 0 !!! -- Patents on Human Genes ...

Apr 15, 2012 -- 4:43PM, christzen wrote:

Apr 15, 2012 -- 3:16PM, REteach wrote:

Corn is genetically modified. Corn could not exist today without human.

Some of you remind me of the possibly apocryphal story of the woman who snuffed out her cigarette and then wanted food not sprayed with alar  

Of greater issue is the possibility of most,if not eventually all,of our food supply being copyrighted property of a few large corporations.What are your thoughts on this?

Funny,I thought this discussion was about cloned food animals.What does cloning humans have to do with corporations cloning and copyrighting food animals?

and the supreme court just ruled 5-4 that GMO seed stock was not a danger to organic crops,  despite the non industry studies that showed otherwise,   complete with cross pollination rates of 1 year,2 year all the way up to 11 year,  which is how long the study lasted.    At year 10 cross pollination was over 75%.   Monsanto owns the court.    Alito and Thomas both had ties to Monsanto.  Alitio recused himself but of course Thomas did not.    

I agree that Industrial-Scale Agriculture creates LOTS of unintended Problems ... But thus far, "cloned" Animals is NOT one such ...

Apr 16, 2012 -- 12:26PM, Find1Answer wrote:

Monsanto owns the court and the USDA.   Once your crop is over 10% gmo even if you are attempting to grow conventional or organic Monsanto has the right to sue you for royalties and they are suing the farmer.    I cannot believe the American consumer whether right or left is comfortable with cloned animals or gmo seed stock.    I cannot believe that the American consumer is comfortable with the decimation of bees which pollinate our crops with systemic pesticides in our plants.      The supreme court and our congress is okay with that,   of course the wheels are greased with Monsanto funny money.

Apr 17, 2012 -- 5:30PM, Erey wrote:

You have to think about how prevelant hunger used to be in the world.  It was almost the human condition to struggle to get enough food to eat. 

Used to be?

The world hunger problem: Facts, figures and statistics.

In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"

Every year 15 million children die of hunger

For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years

Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!

The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.

One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture

The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy

Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF

3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.

In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.

In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.

The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.

One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.

Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.

In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.

Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death

About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age

To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.

The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.

Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger

It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.

library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/pres...

Alot of these advances in agriculture are what make it possible for people all over the world to be well fed.  They are starting to have obesity problems in the BRICS countries and it is just all trickling down. 

Whereas this is a mixed blessing it is hard to argue against the end of hunger. 

I do think we have some unintended consequesnces from all this.  Looking at all the wheat allergies.  I was reading this article that people are eating alot more wheat (26 more pounds per year) but also the wheat of today is very different than the wheat of history.  Significantly different and it was never tested.

www.spiritualityhealth.com/articles/whea...