Should patents be issued for living organisms?

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    7/24/2006 12:31:50 AM

    good

    6/18/2006 10:38:10 PM

    let's see if a couple more readers agree ... .

    6/18/2006 10:37:46 PM

    it is ready for approval in my opinion

    6/13/2006 4:09:58 PM

    issue revision:

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    Should patents be allowed on living organisms?
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    6/13/2006 4:09:40 PM

    I see your point about the GM foods debate, but its a more fundamental question than that. Animals, bacteria, and human cells and genes have also been patented. It's also important in other areas of scientific ethics, law, constitutional issues... etc. I'll take your other suggestion though, you're definitely right.

    6/7/2006 4:33:20 PM

    be allowed for is the wrong wording, i think.  what about using "issued"?  also, if your initiating a debate on patents for genetically modified foods, why not ask:

    Should patents be issued for genetically modified foods?

    5/30/2006 8:05:19 PM

    This question is crucial to the debate on genetically modified foods... when biotech corporations engineer a new type of corn or whatever, they can patent the gene, then propagate it. Some find this supremely creepy, but it's the cornerstone of the industry.