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A friend told me that
"Mars have been taking out patents on Genes for cocoa. This particular cocoa they have been buying for year from farmers on the ivory coast, but now they have patented it, the farmers are no longer allowed to sell it and have to but the seeds from Mars to grow the cocoa, as they are made infertile by genetically modification."
Does anybody know the truth about this? Surely it can't be legal to just pay some money and own a strip of DNA so that nobody else can use it.
"Mars have been taking out patents on Genes for cocoa. This particular cocoa they have been buying for year from farmers on the ivory coast, but now they have patented it, the farmers are no longer allowed to sell it and have to but the seeds from Mars to grow the cocoa, as they are made infertile by genetically modification."
Does anybody know the truth about this? Surely it can't be legal to just pay some money and own a strip of DNA so that nobody else can use it.