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In The News: Seed Scares in Vanity Fair

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Here's a frightening story about a pharmaceutical company that is patenting and buying up seeds. World domination of food sources? Read the full story here: Monsanto's Harvest of Fear

Pull Quote:
Monsanto developed G.M. seeds that would resist its own herbicide, Roundup, offering farmers a convenient way to spray fields with weed killer without affecting crops. Monsanto then patented the seeds. For nearly all of its history the United States Patent and Trademark Office had refused to grant patents on seeds, viewing them as life-forms with too many variables to be patented. "It's not like describing a widget," says Joseph Mendelson III, the legal director of the Center for Food Safety, which has tracked Monsanto's activities in rural America for years.

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