An undergraduate in arts # 4

Source Text:

Today, intellectual property has become a powerful tool to enhance corporate monopoly and consolidate market power. Exclusive monopoly patents are giving a steadily shrinking number of corporate “gene giants” unprecedented control over the biological basis for commercial agriculture.

Source:

Shand, Hope J. “Intellectual Property: Enhancing Corporate Monopoly and Bioserfdom”, The Environmental News Network. (September 30, 2002) 5 April 2003. http://enn.com/arch.html?id=23042

“Farmer’s Announce: We Are Closing Down Monsanto!”. Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) – Peasant Movement of the Phillipines Website. (December 3, 2001). 5 April 2003. < http://www.geocities.com/kmp_ph/strug/safefood/n011203.html >

Writer’s Text:

The following quotations are examples of this phenomenon:

“Monsanto and these agrochemical transnational “gene giants” justify genetically-engineering seeds and other products as their solution to a world allegedly going hungry.  What they don’t know is that farmers all over the world knew from the start that their monopoly over seeds and other agricultural products contribute to the poverty they are experiencing.”     (KMP 2001)

“Today, intellectual property has become a powerful tool to enhance corporate monopoly and consolidate market power. Exclusive monopoly patents are giving a steadily shrinking number of corporate “gene giants” unprecedented control over the biological basis for commercial agriculture.”     (Shand 2001)

Writer’s comment:

These are all quotes from their websites. I used them to support what I wrote here. I cited them because it’s not my own work. It’s from another source so it kind of proves the point… This website is at the back of my essay. I tried finding some information about how to cite things from a website specifically that’s not really set up in a typical article format. Because, a website’s formats are generally pretty different. So I find it really difficult to cite that.