From: Andrew Johnson
Date: 2014-02-13 13:46:18
#ygrps-yiv-202294263 { FONT-SIZE:10pt;} #ygrps-yiv-202294263 TD { FONT-SIZE:10pt;} #ygrps-yiv-202294263 FONT { FONT-SIZE:10pt;} #ygrps-yiv-202294263 A:link { COLOR:#00abbd;TEXT-DECORATION:underline;} #ygrps-yiv-202294263 A:visited { COLOR:#00abbd;TEXT-DECORATION:underline;} #ygrps-yiv-202294263 A:hover { COLOR:#00abbd;} #ygrps-yiv-202294263 TD P { MARGIN:0em;} #ygrps-yiv-202294263 P { MARGIN:1em 0em;} #ygrps-yiv-202294263 TD DIV P { MARGIN:1em 0em;} #ygrps-yiv-202294263 .ygrps-yiv-202294263X0uMP P { MARGIN:1em 0px;} #ygrps-yiv-202294263 .ygrps-yiv-202294263footer { BORDER-TOP:#000 1px solid;PADDING-TOP:25px;} #ygrps-yiv-202294263 .ygrps-yiv-202294263footer IMG { FLOAT:left;MARGIN-RIGHT:25px;} I understand several corporations have tried similar things in the past … From: Paul Ferris, SumOfUs.org [mailto:us@sumofus.org] Sent: 12 February 2014 12:01To: Andrew JohnsonSubject: The fennel flower Nestlé is claiming that it owns a natural cure that’s been used for over 1,000 years. Tell Nestlé to stop trying to patent the natural cure-all, nigella sativa. Share on Facebook. Andrew, Nigella sativa — more commonly known as fennel flower — has been used as a cure-all remedy for over a thousand years. It treats everything from vomiting to fevers to skin diseases, and has been widely available in impoverished communities across the Middle East and Asia. But now Nestlé is claiming to own it, and filing patent claims around the world to try and take control over the natural cure of the fennel flower and turn it into a costly private drug. Tell Nestlé: Stop trying to patent a natural cure! In a paper published last year, Nestlé scientists claimed to discover what much of the world has known for millennia: that nigella sativa extract could be used for nutritional interventions in humans with food allergy. But instead of creating an artificial substitute, or fighting to make sure the remedy was widely available, Nestlé is attempting to create a nigella sativa monopoly and gain the ability to sue anyone using it without Nestlés permission. Nestlé has filed patent applications — which are currently pending — around the world. Prior to Nestlé’s outlandish patent claim, researchers in developing nations such as Egypt and Pakistan had already published studies on the same curative powers Nestlé is claiming as its own. And Nestlé has done this before — in 2011, it tried to claim credit for using cows milk as a laxative, despite the fact that such knowledge had been in Indian medical texts for a thousand years. Dont let Nestlé turn a traditional cure into a corporate cash cow. This isn’t surprising, considering Nestle has a long track record of not caring about ethics. After all, this is the corporation that poisoned its milk with melamine, purchases cocoa from plantations that use child slave labor, and launched a breast milk substitute campaign in the 1970s that contributed to the suffering and deaths of thousands of babies from poor communities. But we also know that Nestlé is sensitive to public outcry, and that it’s been beaten at the patent game before. If we act fast, we can put enough pressure on Nestlé to get it to drop its patent plans before they harm anyone — but if we want any chance at affecting Nestlé’s decision, we have to speak out now, while its patent claims are still under review. Thanks for all you do,Paul and the team at SumOfUs.org **********More Information: Third World Network (PDF): Food giant Nestlé claims to have invented stomach soothing use of habbat al-barakah (Nigella sativa), 6 July, 2012 SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3.This email was sent to ad.johnson@ntlworld…..
