Nestlé are applying for a patent for fennel flower

These companies are truly without shame.

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True.

Changing patent laws in the UK is not going to have any effect elsewhere. These big transnational companies are the only ones who can afford to take out patents all over the world.

The real problem is the patent laws. They need changing. Might be more effective to get onto our MPs for that.

j08 I think this potential patent is probably the same process as a pharma company tried to use – I'm not sure whether they were successful – to patent the DNA of some traditional South American herbal medicines.

Incidentally, it's not fennel as in the bulb. Nigella seeds, also known as kalonji, are used in a lot of Indian and Middle Eastern recipes.

Signed and shared on Facebook. I don't buy Nestle products either for the same reason as Nonny

I've signed. I try to avoid buying nestle products ever since I heard about them selling infant formula to mothers in third world countries many years ago.

I have signed. I cannot see how they can patent it as a plant where does this stop?

Signed and shared anno

How could they ever patent fennel?! [ hmm]

They might try to cook up some quack "remedy" and patent that, but not the flower itself.

Possible, anno? With MPs on all sides accepting freebies and people being able to pay for dinner with the PM, I think they already rule the country.

Done

Monsanto were up to similar tricks with maize genes. BIG companies have a ridiculous amount of clout. I once read a sci fi story about a future in which big business ruled the world and it all seemed terrifyingly possible.

Done. Who DO they think they are? How can a natual resource (in my case growing wild in the surrounding fields) be "owned" by any one else?

Signed.
Who do they think they are?

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Whilst on the somofus site, I was horrified to notice that the car hire firm I used, Enterprise, is a sponsor of the US gun lobby. I won't be using them again.
Reading the somofus site, I am sickened by the things big businesses will do to make a profit. Tesco is tagging its employees.

Oh my lord , what on earth are they thinking of . Actually of course hadn"t got my thinking head on . MONEY, MONEY , MONEY .

They've got a cheek. I signed this petition earlier today anno