American agribusiness Cargill is not actively defending Meat and Livestock’s appeal of the beef genome patent in the Federal Court.
Meat and Livestock Australia has lodged a legal appeal against the patent which was granted to joint venture Cargill US Branhaven LLC, by the Australian Patent office.
Cattle researchers and breeders were worried the licence would restrict their work into traits like meat marbling, tenderness, meat yiel…
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