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Monsanto shouldn’t get away with it anymore –Vandana Shiva



Quantum physicist and environmental activist Vandana Shiva
foresees The Future of Food, in three parts.


  • Part 1
    :

    There are only two applications that have been commercialized
    in these twenty years of genetic engineering.
    One is to make seeds more resilient to herbicides,
    which means you get to spread more Roundup,
    you get to spread more Glysophate,
    and you get to spread more poison.
    Not a very desirable trait in farming systems.
    Especially since what Monsanto will call weeds
    are ultimately sources of food.

    It gets even better from there.

    These are illusions that are being marketed
    in order for people to hand over the power to decide what we eat
    to a handful of corporations.

    Vandana Shiva is the keynote speaker at the

    Georgia Organics conference in Savannah
    , 11-12 March 2011.
    There’s still time to sign up!

    Here’s Part 1:

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