Patenting of *any* genes might be harmful (Score 2)

Human genes are not the only one that are dangerous to allow patenting. Financial times has an interesting article on how companies holding patents for gene-manipulated food can get a stranglehold on all of us. Read it up at here.

IMHO, this issue is as least as scary as M$, especially given the history of companies like DuPont (anyone remembers Jack Herer's book ("the emperor wears no clothes"?). Clearly, companies should in general be protected to reap the rewards of their research and work. However, this protection needs to be balanced with the protection of society and (yeah, corny), humankind.

I don't see a lot of serious effort to address this issue politically. IMHO, this is the time to act.