Free Pepper!: Europe-wide opposition to the Syngenta patent on pepper plants
Fuente Munich/ Bern/ Zurich, 3 February 2014 Today a broad coalition of 32 NGOs, farmers and breeders organisations in 26 European countries filed an opposition to a patent on sweet peppers granted to Syngenta. The company patented an insect resistance, which they copied from a wild pepper plant. Such patents are not only ethically questionable …