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Occupy Wall Street: the Conscience of the Nation
December 19, 2011 04:12 -
Willie Nelson’s Long Time Bassist—Dan “Bee” Spears Dies
December 14, 2011 09:12 -
Barn Raising and Community Support Celebrated at Pete’s Greens
December 7, 2011 09:12 -
Building Worker Power for a Just and Sustainable Food System
December 4, 2011 13:12 -
Hacking the Food System In the Public Interest
November 30, 2011 10:11 -
Using Honeybees to Sniff Out Explosives
November 22, 2011 13:11 -
Farm To Fork and the Local Food Economy
November 16, 2011 19:11
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The Resilient Gardener, A Book Review
February 2, 2012 04:02 -
Announcing the Food Farmer Earth Collective
January 29, 2012 23:01 -
Alan Kapuler: Man of Science, Ideas, and Humanity part 4 (video)
January 24, 2012 04:01 -
Factory Farms: Animal Welfare, No Legal Protections 2 (video)
January 17, 2012 04:01 -
Factory Farms: Animal Welfare, No Legal Protections (video)
January 10, 2012 12:01 -
Farmer Don: Ode to a Small Family Farmer
January 9, 2012 04:01 -
Mother Nature’s Own Weapons of Mass Destruction
January 4, 2012 04:01
Posts Tagged ‘genetically modified foods’
Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food-Part 3
“Ecology is permanent economy”— Sunderlal Bahuguna, environmental activist and active crusader in the Chipko Movement Dr. Vandana Shiva founded the Research for Science, Technology, and Ecology, (RFSTE) organization, inspired by her earlier involvement with the Chipko movement. In 1973, in a mountainous region in the Himalayas, women villagers, in heroic and desperate fashion, clung to [...]
Patent Law: How Patents Grew Over Time To Include Living Organisms-2
Finally, I suggested two big questions that these new statutes left unanswered: (1) does a living organism other than a plant fall within the patentable subject matter categories for regular utility patents?; and (2) do plants, and seeds, fall within the patentable subject matter categories for regular utility patents? These questions, especially the second, are pressing because utility patent protection is stronger than either of the special protections designed just for plants.