Patenting DNA, something unsavoury in our food supply.

 

So Monsanto will own the DNA of pigs. That means making money off of every pork chop you eat, anywhere in the world. That means digging into the pocket of any person who wants to breed a pig and sell the meat. A German farmer asks: "Why should someone be able to come here and claim a right to something that belongs to farmers or all of society?"

What about Spain hunting people down and killing them for gold up and down the coast of Latin America? What about the British literally snatching people from the shores of Africa and selling them to spend their lives doing the dirty work of fat capitalists in the United States? What about the French colonists who simply moved in and set up shop on First Nations land in Quebec, killing anyone who disagreed?

This 'patent' talk is just a new bloodless war tactic, but, instead of geographically-mediated government empires targeting racial minorities, it's government-like corporations targeting uneducated and poor consumers. (Buying out the entire market of good foods, producing foods as cheap and shitty as possible, basically garbage that is making our lives shorter for huge profits.)

"Governments" are no longer geographically bound-- with transnational business and companies, vast migration of immmigrant populations, as well as the internet, we are entering a new paradigm of competing nationalism projects.

Our government, to which we pay taxes, does not seem to realize that the these corporate bodies have absolutely no loyalty to our people and their wellbeing. When corporate interests pay big money to influence our government, with every little law and policy we make that helps them make more money, we are essentially selling ourselves into slavery.