India blocks Colgate patents for spices

Post by monochromatic » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 2:05 PM UTC

audunw wrote: post #5

Imagine all the countless hour of pointless human labor that could be saved if we simply abolished patents. How many man hours has been wasted in these thousands of cases? And for what? How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation? But then again I suppose this "solves" the problem that there's not enough productive work to go around. In a 100 years perhaps all human endeavor will be about figh…

Post by venomsnake » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 2:08 PM UTC

pinaceae wrote: post #17

themgt wrote: post #6

"You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine." - Tim Minchin This quote used to really sum up my opinion, but the more time I've spent growing and eating and researching a variety of plants/herbs/spices, it's quite clear that many of them do have quite a lot of beneficial health effects, often unique in being more effective or having less side-effects than western medicine. Pla…

absolutely. so please, once you have a serious condition only take your spices. no penicilin (or does it count as mold?), no insulin, no aneasthesia for you. just a little cinnamon. wear glasses or contacts? away with them! a little pepper in your eyes works wonders. and they wonder why seattle has lower polio vaccines rates than kazakhstan or tchad.

Post by golergka » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 2:13 PM UTC

astazangasta wrote: post #14

golergka wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> abolished patents > How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation? I'm sorry, but you seem to have jumped from "patents" to "patenting combinations of spices" here. I don't think that you did this intentionally, but you replaced the topic in between; first, you formulate your thesis as "we should abolishing patents", and later, you seem to be proving it, but you really only prove a different t…

Err, this is called exemplification. It is a common rhetorical device. Really this could have done with any patent, which all need to go.

Post by kbenson » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 2:22 PM UTC

themgt wrote: post #6

"You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine." - Tim Minchin This quote used to really sum up my opinion, but the more time I've spent growing and eating and researching a variety of plants/herbs/spices, it's quite clear that many of them do have quite a lot of beneficial health effects, often unique in being more effective or having less side-effects than western medicine. Pla…

Post by pritambaral » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

selimthegrim wrote: post #19

astazangasta wrote: post #16

"Dalchini", BTW, is literally "lentil sugar". Put some in your lentils for added yum.

This is probably a misspelling for darchini, i.e. cinnamon