What I fail to understand is, how the f*** can a company like Monsanto get away with patenting human or other animal genes, plant genes, etc.? It's beyond disturbing that the government actually allows this, let alone the act of genetically modifying plants and animals in the first place (and worse, not requiring labeling of any kind on food products). Even if there are a few people in the government that are known to work for, or have worked for, the company. I mean, really, no one else in the government cares? Whatever happened with peer review? So much crap happens in government at the wishes of a seemingly very, very small number of higher-up people whose plans, if properly discussed with other people in the government and the public, wouldn't see the light of day and would be deemed outright insane before they had the chance to take off. The pig has been around for far longer than anyone would even care to know, and certainly wasn't "invented" just recently by some jackass working at a selfish, corrupt, massive corporation. Doesn't "prior art" apply here? Does the government even follow its own rules?
I watched the documentary POTAWIE linked to earlier in the thread, and that's some f***ed up shit.