Comments on: I’ve been warned. . . http://gastrocasttv.com/blog/2006/08/09/ive-been-warned/ The Culinary Podcast about Food, Farming & The Politics of what we eat. Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:57:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: ChefNeal http://gastrocasttv.com/blog/2006/08/09/ive-been-warned/comment-page-1/#comment-449 ChefNeal Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:32:01 +0000 I've seen that before but never stopped to read it. I think now they've dropped the EM-1 differentiation and are trying to confuse the issue even more. Read the newest post for more on the obscurity. I’ve seen that before but never stopped to read it. I think now they’ve dropped the EM-1 differentiation and are trying to confuse the issue even more. Read the newest post for more on the obscurity.

]]> By: bdmount http://gastrocasttv.com/blog/2006/08/09/ive-been-warned/comment-page-1/#comment-448 bdmount Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:58:01 +0000 Here's more information than you (certainly more than I) want to know about the hairsplitting differences in EM companies, products, trademarks and the like. <br /> <br />http://www.eminfo.info/moreem1.html#Names <br /> <br />At least the lawyers are getting rich over this. I guess if Monsanto can patent a few thousand genes, EM Tech can try to lay claim to a few billion microbes. Here’s more information than you (certainly more than I) want to know about the hairsplitting differences in EM companies, products, trademarks and the like.

http://www.eminfo.info/moreem1.html#Names

At least the lawyers are getting rich over this. I guess if Monsanto can patent a few thousand genes, EM Tech can try to lay claim to a few billion microbes.

]]> By: ChefNeal http://gastrocasttv.com/blog/2006/08/09/ive-been-warned/comment-page-1/#comment-447 ChefNeal Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:27:01 +0000 I am as perplexed as you. I haven't hear anything from my inquiries yet today, but I suspect it is all a battle over trademarking words like 'em technology' & 'effective microbes' and it seems to boil down to two companies who swear, and I formerly had no reason to doubt, their combination of microbes is the authentic combination of microbes. Bizzarre. Methinks EM Tech protests too much. The larger picture they paint is one of protecting from fraud by people who brew up their own brown juice and sell it as EM, but surely the fraudsters fall away rapidly when there product doesn't work as good as legit company's. I can understand patenting a process or limiting a secret technology, but this isn't even that. And it's not even patenting life--the microbes reside everywhere. Anyone could technically make the stuff. Perhaps that's what scared them--the passing of information which will lead to people creating thier own mother cultures. . . . <br /> <br />What even more pisses me off is some of the text they cut was a recipe I've been working on for a non-toxic, dare you to drink it Flea spray which I was sharing the technique for making for the first time. I haven't even written down the formula or method for myself, and now no one has it--unless they've stolen it and are planning on growing it and releasing it on their own. . . I am as perplexed as you. I haven’t hear anything from my inquiries yet today, but I suspect it is all a battle over trademarking words like ‘em technology’ & ‘effective microbes’ and it seems to boil down to two companies who swear, and I formerly had no reason to doubt, their combination of microbes is the authentic combination of microbes. Bizzarre. Methinks EM Tech protests too much. The larger picture they paint is one of protecting from fraud by people who brew up their own brown juice and sell it as EM, but surely the fraudsters fall away rapidly when there product doesn’t work as good as legit company’s. I can understand patenting a process or limiting a secret technology, but this isn’t even that. And it’s not even patenting life–the microbes reside everywhere. Anyone could technically make the stuff. Perhaps that’s what scared them–the passing of information which will lead to people creating thier own mother cultures. . . .

What even more pisses me off is some of the text they cut was a recipe I’ve been working on for a non-toxic, dare you to drink it Flea spray which I was sharing the technique for making for the first time. I haven’t even written down the formula or method for myself, and now no one has it–unless they’ve stolen it and are planning on growing it and releasing it on their own. . .

]]> By: bdmount http://gastrocasttv.com/blog/2006/08/09/ive-been-warned/comment-page-1/#comment-446 bdmount Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:32:01 +0000 I don't get it. The EM Technology Network doesn't even seem to be marketing anything besides literature, and both sites acknowledge Prof. Higa as their founder/guru. What are those boys so jealously guarding? This seems just a step removed from claiming the rights to Recycling(tm). I don’t get it. The EM Technology Network doesn’t even seem to be marketing anything besides literature, and both sites acknowledge Prof. Higa as their founder/guru. What are those boys so jealously guarding? This seems just a step removed from claiming the rights to Recycling(tm).

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