Judge Who Ruled Humans Have ‘No Food Rights’ Resigns, Takes Job with Monsanto Law Firm
Posted on Oct 14, 2011 in Health, Food News, & Big PharmaKevin Hayden – TruthisTreason.net
Source: Food Freedom by Rady Ananda
As courts and bureaucrats continue to assert that citizens have no fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice, we find Monsanto lurking nearby. The Wisconsin judge who recently ruled that we have no right to own a cow or drink its milk resigned to join one of Monsanto’s law firms.
Former judge Patrick J. Fiedler now works for Axley Brynelson, LLP, which defended Monsanto against a patent infringement case filed by Australian firm, Genetic Technologies, Ltd. (GTL) in early 2010.
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In another link, Myriad Genetics, which holds the exclusive U.S. patent on human genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, granted the license to GTL in 2002. These human genes are associated with breast and ovarian cancer.
In 2009, the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation (PubPat) sued the PTO, Myriad Genetics, and principals at the University of Utah Research Foundation, charging that patents on genes are unconstitutional and invalid. The suit also charges that such patents stifle diagnostic testing and research that could lead to cures and that they limit women’s options regarding their medical care.
In an absurd ruling this year, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the patent on these human genes, even though the DNA sequence occurs in nature. The court decided that simply because researchers had been able to extract it, the firm owns it. Of course, under this thinking, all of nature can be patented if human technology allows extraction.
“The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted thousands of patents on human genes – in fact, about 20 percent of our genes are patented. A gene patent holder has the right to prevent anyone from studying, testing or even looking at a gene. As a result, scientific research and genetic testing has been delayed, limited or even shut down due to concerns about gene patents,” commented ACLU.
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That any official would approve gene patents is bad enough – discovering nature is not inventing it. But in the Wisconsin case, Judge Fiedler ruled that humans:
- “Do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;”
- “Do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow;”
- “Do not have a fundamental right to board their cow at the farm of a farmer;”
- “Do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice;” and
- Cannot enter into private contracts “outside the scope of the State’s police power.”
Ruling against raw milk forces consumers to drink genetically modified, antibiotic-laden milk from cows fed an unnatural diet of pesticide-loaded feed. No doubt that makes Monsanto a major fan of Patrick Fiedler. His decision was rendered on Sept. 9 and he stepped down from the bench on Sept. 30.
This case begs for competent legal counsel who can get the outrageous decision overturned.
Hat tip to SedonaEarthKnits and some investigative work by semi-anonymous bloggers.
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I think my next patent will be one on the president of Monsanto. If he can patent me, I think it’s only fair that I should be able to patent him.
Keep voting for conservatives, and it will only get worse.
ORAXX, you do know the courts are filled with Liberal judges right now, don’t you? You’re not that ignorant, are you? Sigh.
So the courts are filled with liberal judges, are they? So are you saying this effing judge is a liberal? Prove it. And in the meantime, what do you think of the “liberals” on the Supreme Court who said money is speech and corporations are people? (And in case you don’t understand sarcasm, my last sentence is meant sarcastically; the judges who ruled that way are conservatives.)
Prove it aye? There is nothing conservative about pushing into new legal territory. This judge is setting dangerous precedents that fly in the face of reason and legality. These rulings would be far more frightening if other judges take the precedents and base their rulings upon them. This judge is liberal, but I don’t see at all why it matters what adjective or another is applied to him. He is a shill for corporate america and should be sterilized, and lobotomized.
That he’s a liberal or conservative is moot. He makes this decision then 3 weeks later is working for Monsanto, it reeks of corruption and collusion. The judge should be investigated for ethics violations and, when found guilty, his decision overturned.
keep fighting people..that will solve it…your vote doesn’t count, you have lost all of your rights, read the Constitution and Bill of RIghts, that will show us what to do…
I plan to drink the milk from my own cow, and eat my own vegetables. I will not allow some lawyer wearing a black robe to terrorize me. We’re a nation of laws, and this includes Natural Laws. I won’t be intimidated by this sociopath who thinks he’s a judge.
OK, I just have to say, I don’t get the intense fear of antibiotics and GMOs. But whatever. People have a right to eat whatever they want. This is BS.
I also have to say that this doesn’t appear to restrict people from doing whatever, just that it’s not a “right.” But whatever, it should be.
Lots of complaining about right vs. left. So remind me again which side isn’t bought and paid for.
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