12/06/2019 (Agence Europe) – The patent granted by the European Patent Office (EPO) for salmon and trout raised on specific plants could set a precedent for many other patent applications, the association No Patents on Seeds! denounced in a statement published on Wednesday 12 June. However, according to this association, which fights against the patenting of living things, several patent applications claiming food products, such as meat and milk, derived from animals fed with selected plants are currently being examined by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). “If such ‘seed to meat’ patents are granted, the patent holders are in a position to control animal food production to a great extent”, explained Christoph Then, a member of the association, fearing that multinationals such as Bayer or Syngenta could control agriculture and food production. (PH)