End legal patents on live animals

This is how the government are able to reject your petitions.

Who owns the genome of a cow or any animal? That is, the complete genetic material encoded in the DNA of the animal.
It doesn't matter if you believe in creation or evolution as the human being did not invent animals and is not logical to patent something that existed before the government law.
This is a massive problem and is the root of all prophet within live exporting.

In 2010, the Australian Patent Office granted a patent titled 'Compositions, methods and systems for inferring bovine traits', to commodities giant Cargill USA and Branhaven LLC.

When Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) found out about the patent early last year it launched an appeal along with Dairy Australia.

MLA believes the patent's broad claims potentially mean it extends to around two thirds of the bovine genome, including almost every economically valuable trait, such as beef tenderness, marbling in meat, and milk production.

It has raised serious concern at MLA and Dairy Australia because the two organisations invest a significant amount of their levy payers' money into cattle research, with an increasing focus on genomics.

The organisations believe the patent will maintain the high price of genomic testing for beef and dairy farmers, while also having a chilling effect on Australian research into cattle genomics.

Barrister Katrina Howard SC, on behalf of MLA, argued before Justice Jonathan Beach on Monday that the claims in the patent granted to Cargill USA and Branhaven LLC used scientific and statistical tools that would have been well known and understood by a person skilled in genomic mapping at the patent's priority date, 2003 Branhaven's legal counsel argued the methods used to identify these traits had never been used at the time of the patent's priority date, that they were theoretical at the time, and their significant investment in applying them and identifying the traits represents a real invention.

Please we need to blow this reality wide open

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