We are not resigned to living in a world where the creative capacities of nature, of women and of communities of people are systematically denied and pirated. BAG calls for an end to patents on life forms that are currently being sanctioned by the World Trade Organization and enshrined in both national and international law. BAG is opposed to the patenting of any life forms, anywhere, by anyone. The Basmati Action Group is a grassroots organization that values life in all its diversity. BAG is opposed to the patenting of any life forms, anywhere, by anyone.
Food forms the natural link between community and life.
For this reason, recent developments in world trade and agricultural policy, life-patenting and genetic engineering strike us as attacks on the essence of those things we value most. BAG has been formed to raise awareness about biopiracy, life patents and on-going acts of colonialism and to work to end these practices. Present global economic and political relations maintain this. BAG is also working to show that biopiracy is a form of class conflict with corporations trying to eliminate communal property, destroy farmers' control and supplant nature's creative capacities in order to increase their own private profits. Boycotting Rice Tec and its products is one action in the movement to resist corporate control over life forms.