Monsanto to Face Biopiracy Charges in India | Happily Natural Day
6.2.12
Monsanto to Face Biopiracy Charges in India | Happily Natural Day: By Dr. Mercola
The government of India has made it very clear that they will not tolerate Monsanto’s attempts to commercialize on their indigenous knowledge, a practice known as biopiracy.
India’s National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), a government agency, is suing Monsanto, the world leader in genetically modified (GM) crops and seeds, and their collaborators, the Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company, for using local varieties of eggplant to develop a genetically modified version.
Quite simply, the biotech giant did not get prior approval to use the naturally occurring breeds for the purposes of genetic modification, and in so doing violated the country’s Biological Diversity Act (BDA), enacted in 2002.
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