VANDANA SHIVA - Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity and Sustainable Living

[JohnyCanuck]

An Interview with Dr Vandana Shiva, one of the world's foremost environmentalist, anti-GM activist and an advocate of ecological farming and sustainable agriculture as a solution to climate change, food security, hunger and peace. The interview was taken on 16th March 2011, during "Grandmonther's University" a three day course at Navdanya Biodiversity Farm at Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India which Dr. Vandana Shiva founded in 1987 to help save traditional seeds. The farm also undertakes research and training, along with the important role of distributing native seeds to farmers in the region.

http://www.ecowalkthetalk.com/blog/2011/03/31/vandana-shiva-traditional-knowledge-biodiversity-and-sustainable-living/

[truedelphi]

1. Thank you for posting this. The woman is a saint -

But also a well spring of knowledge, and an activist and very well accepted among us Alternative lifestyle types.

And recently India has taken some steps to rid themselves of Monsanto and its culture of GM doom.

In no small part due to her efforts.


The USA needs a Vendana Shiva of our own - I notice that our local PBS station out of San Francisco is trying to feed the public the "acceptable" tidbits of knowledge about how thanks to the tremendous scientific research put forth by Monsanto, farmers in the USA can now use less pesticide and wen they do, it is this totally safe substance RoundUp! Next week there will be a one hour special devoted to converting us to accept this crap.

[JohnyCanuck]

2. You're welcome & you might be interested in this recent development re. glyphosate and human health

Ingredient in Roundup Weed Killer Found in Food
April 27, 2013 by Kathy Will 10 Comments

A peer-reviewed study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), published in Entropy, has found that residues of glyphosate, the main ingredient in the weed killer Roundup, have been found in food. Glyphosate is used on crops that are genetically engineered (GMO foods) to be “Roundup Ready”.

Monsanto scientists have claimed for years that Roundup is safe and non-toxic because it targets the shikimate pathway in plants, which is absent in animals. But this pathway is present in bacteria that live in human guts, which play an important role in human physiology, from immunity to synthesizing vitamins.

The study’s authors say that glyphosate does induce disease and is a “textbook example of exogenous semiotic entropy.” Glyphosate detoxifies xenobiotics and interferes with cytochrome P450 enzymes, which enhances the damaging effects of other chemical residues and toxins, and very slowly damages cellular systems in the body through inflammation. Residues of glyphosate are found in sugar, corn, soy, and wheat, some of the main components of the Western diet.

Inflammatory bowel diseases have substantially increased in the last 10 years in the U.S. and Western Europe; glyphosate may be to blame. In addition, female rats are very susceptible to mammary tumors following chronic exposure to glyphosate, which means “something else may be going on”, according to researchers. Researchers said that the systematic search of the literature “has led us to the realization that many of the health problems that appear to be associated with a Western diet could be explained by biological disruptions that that have been attributed to glyphosate, including digestive issues, obesity, autism, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, Parkinson’s disease, liver disease, and cancer, among others.”

http://foodpoisoningbulletin.com/2013/ingredient-in-roundup-weed-killer-found-in-food/

[HuckleB]

3. She's a horrible scam artist.

http://kfolta.blogspot.ca/2015/03/shiva-brings-non-scientific-message-to.html?m=1

[HuckleB]

4. She's still an unethical individual to the core.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kavinsenapathy/2015/11/03/vandana-shiva-appropriating-her-own-culture/