Re: [compost_tea] Re:pretty close to compost tea!

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 03:29:00 EDT

This is in reference to the article from the Am. Phytopath meeting where
Fusarium blight was reduced by spraying the mix of bacterial species.

I find it a pretty low that US tax-payer funded researchers that the people
of the USA pay to do research can patent what we are paying them to work on.

And what are they patenting? A mix of 18 species of bacteria? Did they
actually invent these bacteria? If I have that combination of 18 bacteria in my
back-yard, do I have to now pay these people for the privledge of having "their
bacterial mix" in my property?

And where did they get the mix of microbes from in the first place?

And if they are actually working for you and I as tax-payers, why aren't we,
the people of the US, given the payments generated from the patents?

Am I just missing something here, or is this whole patenting life thing just
beyond nonsensical?

Elaine R. Ingham
Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
Soil Foodweb Institute Cambridge, New Zealand
Soil Foodweb Inc., Oosterbeck, The Netherlands
Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
Soil Foodweb Inc., South Africa







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