Colleyville DH – Affirmative – Biotech

Text- United States Federal Government should grant to topically designated areas the ability to use staple crop agricultural biotechnology that is patented in the United States. 

Short-term food aid’s inevitable ensuring poverty---only long-term, sustainable support can break the cycle. 

One News 6 [“Famine in Africa getting worse”, July 24th, Source: Reuters via google search http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_skin/795002]

Food emergencies in… safety nets, Oxfam said. 

Undernourishment’s the number of public health issue 

Times of India 7 [Feb 8th, “Tropic of Hunger”, http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q= famine+sub-saharan&num=20&sa=N&cid=8620158276875528] 

Since the geography… a deeper malaise 

Contention Two- Biotech Competitiveness 

US competitiveness is rising and zero sum with other nations. US patents legitimized through the TRIPS agreement will ensure other countries can’t overtake US competitiveness as long as the US sustains market monopolies through patents. 

Dunn and Reifer 2, Christopher Chase-Project Director of Institute for Research on World-Systems, Thomas Reifer Research Associate, University of San Diego—(“ US Hegemony and Biotechnology: The geopolitics of new lead technology”, Institute for Research on World-Systems, Working Paper # 9, 2002, http://www.irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows9/irows9.htm 

Firms producing these…behind the U.S. 

Giving agricultural biotech for use by farmers in Africa would decrease US competitiveness  

Dunn 4--- Christopher Chase-Dunn: director Institute for Research on World-Systems; Armando Lara-Millan and Richard Niemeyer: Research Associates Institute for Research on World-Systems—(“Biotechnology in the global political economy”, Institute for Research on World-Systems, 3-15-04, http://www.irows.ucr.edu/research/biotech/isa04biotech.htm) 

And the United 
 
 

Even though China’s public biotech sector’s growing---Intellectual property concerns are implicating Chinese private sector competitiveness---leaving its industry struggling behind the US. 

Chen 7 -- PhD Agricultural Washington University—(Zhangliang “Chinese Agricultural Biotechnology in the Field”, Updated 20-Mar-2007, http://nabc.cals.cornell.edu/pubs/nabc_18/NABC18_Chen.pdf) 

The Chinese government … number-two position 

China’s private agricultural sector’s key to its economy----sustaining public sector efforts. Current methods are unsustainable and ensure poverty.  

Hautea and Escaler 4--Randy A. Hautea: PHD & Director South-East Asia Center and Margarita Escaler: Manager Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology—(“Plant Biotechnology in Asia”, AgBioForum, 7(1&2), 2-8.) 

The importance of … to achieve this. 

Current Chinese biotech efforts are focused domestically  

Huang and Wang 2, Jikun Huang: Director, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Qinfang Wang: Associate Professor, Biotechnology Research Institute Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences —(“ Agricultural Biotechnology Development and Policy in China”, Volume 5, Number 4, Article 1, Journal of Agrobiotechnology Management and Economics, 2002, http://www.agbioforum.org/v5n4/v5n4a01-huang.htm) 

Chinese policymakers… the domestic market. 
 

Increased agricultural trade’s key to the economy 

Huang and Wang 2, Jikun Huang: Director, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Qinfang Wang: Associate Professor, Biotechnology Research Institute Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences —(“ Agricultural Biotechnology Development and Policy in China”, Volume 5, Number 4, Article 1, Journal of Agrobiotechnology Management and Economics, 2002, http://www.agbioforum.org/v5n4/v5n4a01-huang.htm) 

However, arguing for… economy and trade. 

Chinese technological economic power’s key to it’s economy and the economies in the rest of the world. 

Ikenberry 12/27/07— Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars—(John, The Rise of China & the Future of the West, December 27, 2007, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/12/the_rise_of_china_the_future_o.html) 

The incentives these… the more powerful.   

And, Chinese key to the global economy. 

ABEYSINGHE 3, Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore, 03 (Tilak, China Economic Review, Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 164-185) 

In this paper, we… the world economy. 

Impact’s extinction 

Bearden 2K T.E., LTC U.S. Army (Retired), [“The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly,” http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aaf97f22e23.htm, June 24]

History bears out that… at least for many decades. 

Contention Three- US Corporations 

Scenario one’s African Water Shortages. 

There are massive water shortages in Africa now—GMO’s invented by US institutions can substantially decrease water usage and solve environmental stress. 

Counsel for Biotech Information 7 [“Researchers Are Making Progress on Drought-tolerant Crops”, http://www.whybiotech.com/index.asp?id=2967] 

New varieties of… need it most." 

African shortages spark nuclear war 

NASCA 6 National Association for Scientific & Cultural Appreciation “Water Shortages – Only A Matter Of Time.” http://www.nasca.org.uk/Strange_relics_/water/water.html) 

Water is one… obvious answer 

Monsanto recently shed its pharmaceutical counter-part and is now totally dependent on its biotech sector.  Empirically when the US failed protect Monsanto’s patents—Monsanto experienced negative growth-- Plan would kill Monsanto.   

Wall Street Journal 2 [August 21st, “Monsanto Faces Pure-Play Biotech Future”, Positioning Itself as Independent After Pharmacia Spinoff, Monsanto Company Must Tackle Some Difficult Issues, reported the Wall Street Journal, Google] 

Monsanto is getting… include Monsanto technology. 

Monsanto recently required the rights to Terminator technology which sterilizes farmer’s fields and forces farmers to continually buy Monsanto seeds. Despite international hostility, Monsanto will ensure strict compliance with their technology— dooming the world food supply resulting in extinction.  

Olsen 2k2  [Mary Jo, -- Terminator Unleashed, Patenting Life—Patenting Death-- “Terminator Trends: The Silent Spring of Farmers’ Rights: Seed Saving, the Public Sector, and Terminator Transnationals”, http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/terminator.html, RAFI Paper series]  

On March 3, 1998 … 1.4 billion people 

Contention Three- Solvency 

The government can override restrictions of patented biotechnology to give Ag-Biotech to sub-Saharan Africa 

Trudell 5, Robert H., JD Candidate @ Syracuse Law, Fall 2005, Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, 33 Syracuse J. Int'l L. & Com. 277 

Two weeks after… Saharan African diet. 

Plan elicits patents from corporations---giving right to use to sub-Saharan Africa----This is the only way to raise awareness of the severity of hunger. 

Trudell 5, Robert H., JD Candidate @ Syracuse Law, Fall 2005, Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, 33 Syracuse J. Int'l L. & Com. 277 

The balance of… continued security of us all. 
 

U.S. patents currently chill research and development in sub-Saharan Africa – public research facilities will latch onto the plan 

Trudell 5, Robert H., JD Candidate @ Syracuse Law, Fall 2005, Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, 33 Syracuse J. Int'l L. & Com. 277 

Today, agricultural productivity… threatens global security. 

Trudell 5, Robert H., JD Candidate @ Syracuse Law, Fall 2005, Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, 33 Syracuse J. Int'l L. & Com. 277