FC: Food for thought or something to gag on? (antitrust suit)

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

> From: james_lucier () prusec com
> To: declan () well com
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:12:36 -0400
> Subject: Food For Thought, or Something To Gag On? The Largest Anti-Trust
>       Lawsuit Ever
>
> Today's Financial Times reports that activists led by Jeremy Rifkin have
> assembled a global alliance of contingency fee lawyers to file
> international anti-trust suit against life sciences companies and grain
> dealers whom they accuse of seeking a stranglehold on agricultural markets
> through use of biotechnology.
>
> http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q157c1a.htm
>
> GM foods groups face huge lawsuit
> By Jean Eaglesham, Legal Correspondent
>
> The world's biggest life science companies and grain processors will face a
> multi-billion dollar antitrust action to be launched in up to 30 countries
> later this year.
>
> The unprecedented lawsuits will claim that companies such as Monsanto,
> DuPont and Novartis are exploiting bioengineering techniques to gain a
> stranglehold on agricultural markets.



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