[compost_tea] Re:pretty close to compost tea!

From: tomjasz <tom_at_livesoil.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:06:00 -0000

I think we should be happy someone is spending the money to do the
research. Seems Am. Phyt. now has more reviewed data on disease
suppression than we do?


--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb@a... wrote:
> 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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