[lbo-talk] Agroecology...

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 06:57:04 PST 2011


[WS:] Interesting. A few years ago I attended a UN-sponsored conference on indigenous development in Burkina Faso. One of the themes was the promotion of indigenous medicine which was threatened by transnational corporations that were using intellectual property rights to patent i.e. legally steal traditional remedies developed by local practitioners.

So the problem is not simply the implementation of a new agricultural technology but the power of local governments to say fuck off to global corporations and their "intellectual property rights."

Fortunately, subverting and sabotaging these "intellectual property rights" can be fairly easy if practiced on a massive scale. What are these ratfuckers going to do - put everyone in jail?

Wojtek



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