Monsanto's Terminator Technology Subject to Massive Internet Protests
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After finding out that Monsanto is pushing ahead fast to obtain an
exclusive license for the US Government's interest in the Terminator, on
September 29th RAFI lauched a global e-mail campaign aimed at stopping
Monsanto's negotiations with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Since then, over 1000 people from 37 countries in Africa, the Americas,
Asia, Europe, and the Pacific have sent a letter to USDA Secretary Dan
Glickman from RAFI's website.
In the face of the challenge to its plans, Monsanto has maintained a stoic
silence; however analysis of use of RAFI's website reveals that company is
attentive. They have visited the website repeatedly. The only exception to
the silence: One person writing from an e-mail address belonging to a
Monsanto subsidiary used RAFI's page to e-mail the USDA a lacklustre
defense of the Terminator titled "Ignore RAFI!". But the author
conveniently ignored the fact that each of the one thousand letters sent
from the page was edited and submitted by an concerned person or
institution.
The RAFI Teminator letter page is dispatching an average of 125 letters
from all over the world every day. The page has recently been updated so
that users from across the world (87 countries) can reference the relevant
Terminator patent document for their country when writing. RAFI is
encouraging people everywhere who want to take action against the
Terminator to please include a visit to
http://www.rafi.org/usda.html.
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[Posted by Chris Wheeler]