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2009-04-23 |

German farm minister rejects ex-Monsanto’s pig patent

German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner has come out strongly against a European patent application for a test to check pigs for a gene that makes them produce more meat. ”Breeding livestock through cross-breeding and selective breeding must remain a patent-free zone,” Aigner is quoted as saying in a pre-released interview with the Sunday edition of the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ”It would not be acceptable for a firm to patent a genetically altered animal and afterwards demand license fees from breeders, whose animals exhibited this gene,” she said.

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2009-04-23 |

German farm minister rejects ex-Monsanto’s pig patent

German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner has come out strongly against a European patent application for a test to check pigs for a gene that makes them produce more meat. ”Breeding livestock through cross-breeding and selective breeding must remain a patent-free zone,” Aigner is quoted as saying in a pre-released interview with the Sunday edition of the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ”It would not be acceptable for a firm to patent a genetically altered animal and afterwards demand license fees from breeders, whose animals exhibited this gene,” she said.

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