{"id":321,"date":"2011-03-04T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/monsanto-shouldnt-get-away-with-it-anymore-vandana-shiva.html"},"modified":"2011-03-04T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T00:35:00","slug":"monsanto-shouldnt-get-away-with-it-anymore-vandana-shiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/monsanto-shouldnt-get-away-with-it-anymore-vandana-shiva.html","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto shouldn&#8217;t get away with it anymore &#8211;Vandana Shiva"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vi1FTCzDSck\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/vi1FTCzDSck\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nQuantum physicist and environmental activist Vandana Shiva\nforesees The Future of Food, in three parts.\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vi1FTCzDSck\">\nPart 1<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\nThere are only two applications that have been commercialized\nin these twenty years of genetic engineering.\nOne is to make seeds more resilient to herbicides,\nwhich means you get to spread more Roundup,\nyou get to spread more Glysophate,\nand you get to spread more poison.\nNot a very desirable trait in farming systems.\nEspecially since what Monsanto will call weeds\nare ultimately sources of food.\n<\/blockquote>\nIt gets even better from there.\n<blockquote>\nThese are illusions that are being marketed\nin order for people to hand over the power to decide what we eat\nto a handful of corporations.\n<\/blockquote>\nVandana Shiva is the keynote speaker at the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiaorganics.org\/conference.aspx\">\nGeorgia Organics conference in Savannah<\/a>, 11-12 March 2011.\nThere&#8217;s still time to sign up!\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s Part 1:\n\n<!--more-->\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vi1FTCzDSck\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TVlJqwft9I8&#038;feature=channel\">\nPart 2<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\nMonocultures are nutritionally impoverished.\nThe same acre of land using biodiversity, using organic and ecological methods\ncan produce five to ten times as much nutrition a monoculture can.\nSo maximizing the amount of commodities for international trade\nis directly proportionate to the decrease in nutrition availability\nto local communities, which is why hunger grows.\nThe world has to be fed.\nIt has to be fed by growing food locally to be used locally\nas the biggest proportion of the food basket.\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\nThey think they can go through life fudging data.\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\nIn the whole genetic engineering issue,\nit&#8217;s a totally manufactured data that farmers are growing more or earning more.\n<\/blockquote>\nTalking about India:\n<blockquote>\nThe pesticide use with these genetically engineered bT seeds\nhas increased 13-fold in 4 years of planting.\n<\/blockquote>\nSounds like <a href=\"\/blog\/page\/2\">Argentina<\/a>.\n<blockquote>\nIt&#8217;s only when you have a duty linked to a responsibility\nthat you will act for the common good.\n<\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TVlJqwft9I8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PQDqEUd53YQ&#038;feature=channel\">\nPart 3<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nSeed is life and soil is life.\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\nIf I was an eighteen year old today I would not go into physics,\nI would choose to be an organic farmer.\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\nAn organic farmer is the best peacemaker today\nbecause there is more violence, more death, more destruction\nand more wars\nthrough the violent industrial agriculture system.\nAnd to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace\nis what organic farming is doing.\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n&#8230;that tiny bit of effort means security overall.\nCareless walking down a Wal-Mart aisle\nwhere you don&#8217;t know where the food is coming from, what&#8217;s in it,\nis going to condem you to all kinds of health problems, disease problems, but\nmost importantly is going to rob you of fundamental freedom.\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\nEvery day&#8217;s act of eating is an act of creative freedom!\n<\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PQDqEUd53YQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quantum physicist and environmental activist Vandana Shiva foresees The Future of Food, in three parts. 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