Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically-Modified Seeds
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
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Bill talks to scientist and philosopher Vandana Shiva, who's become a rock star in the global battle over genetically modified seeds. These seeds -- considered "intellectual property" by the big companies who own the patents -- are globally marketed to monopolize food production and profits. Opponents challenge the safety of genetically modified seeds, claiming they also harm the environment, are more costly, and leave local farmers deep in debt as well as dependent on suppliers. Shiva, who founded a movement in India to promote native seeds, links genetic tinkering to problems in our ecology, economy, and humanity, and sees this as the latest battleground in the war on Planet Earth.
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What's upsetting is that this video is almost a decade ago, and I just discovered Vandana. She speaks for Earth, and should be a global phenomenon. I am going to hold my breath, because I believe in her urgent messages.
Same here 😊
I must have been under a rock. I have also now discovered Dr.Vandana Shiva .Long life ,peace , blessings,health and strength to her and her coworkers and all those around the world who are doing the GREAT WORK and fighting the GOOD FIGHT ,some of them we will never even hear about nor get to know . Let's all start to do our part.Start small.JUST START! One potted plant. Save seeds. Thank You.
Same here bro
No, she's a con artist with ZERO understanding of plant or soil biology, or food supply or economics.
How about you look up how she single handily destroyed Sri Lanka
Just like all Hippies, she's idealistic with zero realistic
Western model of economics created more problems then benefits we should be living in natural environment and conditions instead of artificial world. West is all about artificial. Thats why cancer depression heart attacks and many more problems are harming earth and people.
I'm glad she's on our side.I thank her for inspiration.
Exactly how I feel. Thus woman is a gem stone. We truly need to value what she says in terms of humanity.
@@minalad5408 she needs protection like a precious stone. We need God to protect her and we need more activists like her who some day can take place and continue with her cause- for the good of all humanity.
She's a hero.
You are preaching the opposite. Unlike what you said, not using agrochemicals will cause extinction because it will unable the farmers to produce enough food for the increasing population. You also have to remember the fact that in the present modern era, only 2% of the population are working as farmers and are responsible for feeding the rest 98% of the population. So fewer farmers will need modern agrochemicals to feed others.
Let's be optimistic and not pessimistic (having paranoia that agrochemicals were used to kill people in Hitler's lab also means it is used now to kill us).
Please remember that dosage is what matters. A medication dosage used to cure a person can also kill someone if overdosed (suicide). However, this does not mean that we should stop buying medications to treat ourselves and have the paranoia that doctors want to kill us. The dosage used as agrochemicals is only enough to kill little insects and not large human beings like us. If people are dying due to this, it is because they are not using proper protective equipment while working with fertilizers or they are consuming it on purpose to commit suicide. Again, using proper equipment is necessary for the farmers because they will get exposed to large doses while delivering the medication, however, the residue left on the crops after harvest is minimal and will not harm the consumers as per much evidence in scientific literature.
Everything has risks. That's why there is a Risk vs benefits ratio, eg: every medication has side effects, still it is more beneficial to use it when you are sick.
People, please look for information in scientific literature and people who have enough credits and knowledge in the agricultural field. There is FDA, Health Canada, and many other trustworthy sites to rely on.
Vandana...you are an inspiration to me!
She has bought many fraudster company dirty secret.india will grow toughest people.
Not psychic but mentally
she is dumb
@@deoman99 You're dumb cause you don't know what biodiversity means.
Thank you, Bill Moyers and Company for airing this wonderful interview!
Thank you, Vanda Shiva, you have renewed my spirit and belief that we are not alone in this fight, and please know you are a shining light in gray scheme of things'.
---Blessings' Abound....
A beautiful and enlightened mind ! No wonder James Cameron named his movie Avatar ! A similar story .
A rockstar / physicist / Environmentalist that expounds the truth .. and yet this has not caught on. Baffles me !
In existence there is nobody who is superior and nobody who is inferior. The blade of grass and the great star are absolutely equal... But man wants to be higher than others, hence he has to fight continuously. All complexity arises out of this fight. The innocent person is one who has renounced fighting; who is no longer interested in being higher, who is no longer interested in performing, in proving that he is someone special; who has become like a roseflower or like a dew drop on the lotus leaf; who has become part of this infinity; who has melted, merged and become one with the ocean and is just a wave who has no idea of the 'I'. The disappearance of the 'I' is innocence.
Thank you for your great comments!
Your statement that "there is nobody...superior and...inferior" particularly caught my attention...I would like to offer these thoughts to you:
The idea that men want "to be higher than others" is actually a thought process known by some of us as "verticalization". In this [diseased] mind set all beings [in this case, living beings] are placed on vertical shelves [so to speak] such that those beings on 'higher' vertical levels are considered to be superior to others [existing on 'lower' levels]. This thought process can be found in areas such as religions, science, and in socio-political ideologies...
More on this in a future posting.
Thanks for reading.
thank you for your repost! that made me look into the concept of ''verticalization'' and get new perspectives on human civilization. unfortunatly, Aldous Huxley has predict this, that we, one day, would be born into the world brainwashed and preconditioned by society, as he claims on his book ''Brave New World'' from 1932. this is happening now and we have to be conscious and realize that we all have give them the feeling of power to control us and turn this world catastrophic. it is no longer sustainable, industries have destroied our planet, money became the #1 motivation in people for living and we started to forget simple behaviours of humanity like compassion not competition, equality not racism, and the list goes on, sadly. with all that said, i do share the idea that society will end sooner than we think. have you heard about the freetown of Christiania? we should all live in comunity not society. we are one, all interconnected! why deny it?
Thank you Dr V. Shiva for help us. God will find ways for you to Carry on your work to get GMO out of this World.
No, she will not get biotechnology crops out of this world.
@@DukeGMOLOL GMO is cancer
@@Sketcher86 Ok, then please explain directly and exactly how GMO papaya causes cancer.
She is the reason why Sri lanka is facing food shortage today.
Very well said Vandana ji ... You've been a continued voice of the issue which has been very much ignored at the international forums...It seems you're indeed blessed by Lord Shiva himself 🙏🙏🙏
What an awesome female!
Food forests, feeding the soil and Joel Salatin's method are all interesting counters to the pesticide heavy view of farming
Huge respect maam, I just discovered you today. Nicely explained to gora man in his language of what the corporations are doing to earth and humanity.
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How much progress have we made? Let's not give up hope. Sharing this video helps.
7 years later and I could only see it has gotten worse...
Thanks mom..... to fight for us..
she is pure awesome
I always loved listening to her talks, she makes so much sense. #BhagvadGita is the book of all time, anyone who has not read it is missing out. Sadly social media, which was supposed to create connection only ended up dividing people due to vested interests. even more difficult is the fact that corporations want to monopolize and they outsource production to maximize profits. And that only makes climate change worse. It is most definitely interconnected.
Two amazing people in one interview. Thank you!
great Job... best wishes Vandana..
Anyone ever wonder why this type of interview, with an obviously very intelligent, empathic and logical woman, registers so few views in a period of 8 years!!
The ability to discern information offered through todays digital media outlets, is going to be one of the greatest challenges humanity will be facing in the future. The type of awareness needed to understand what is happening in the world today and why more and more people have difficulties grasping what is happening to them individually, is gradually being eroded by endless streams of force-fed and manipulative information.
google wants us to see mind dead content so that we remain stupid for ever.....
Modern methods of farming are simply not sustainable. Small farmers pay the brunt as the increase in yield is negligible (ground reality is different from these Corporations' claims). Also soil health deteriorates fast due to pesticide use. And it is no secret that "scientific publications" in journals of repute are often found to be wrong, or put forth deceptively.
People also can't beat robots, you know? What if every job will use robots? Is this going to make humanity happy?
Wow, just wow!!!
Grt fan of vandana shiva...
genius at its very best!!!!! much love!!
we're with you. do not stop opposing
beena mym
"Do not measure the fruit of your action "
monsanto :that's what we do !
Amazing talk thank you!
World needs such wisdom to overcome neoclassical ignorance; mechanistic, human-centered and short-sighted world view.. I guess, she must be much inspired by Gandhi and Schumacher (small is beautiful).
She is not inspired, she lies.
@Raghav rob Life saving insulin is a GMO since 1981. Shiva is a liar.
@Raghav rob Your medical discussion of the use of insulin is meaningless to the discussion and is nothing but a change of subject.
GMO's are safe as demonstrated by life saving GMO insulin since 1981.
Gates doesn't make a penny from his charity work.
@Raghav rob There is no evidence whatsoever that rats eating GMO crops got cancer from it. The disgraced Frenchman was embarrassed around the world. Apparently you are the only one who hasn't heard.
@@DukeGMOLOL it the pesticide they sprayed on the gmo
Thanks Shiva Ji for your effort to let live free in future too.
well said,, thank you... I agree...
An intellect with morals rare breed
Listen to Punjab Vandana Shiva
It took me ages to find her book in print as in the UK it has a different title and is called:
Onenessvs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom. Does look like she
is being censored by the biggest bookseller online, I found her book on Waterstones and Ebay.
More love to vandana shiva🌱
Bless her ❤ sister
In Moorish Science were taught that “every living thing is bound by cords to every other living thing”
good video
People need to know this
Id LOVE to see someone take Monsanto Corp. to court and sue them based on the fact that they did not create ANYTHING, that's a lie because they took what God created and modified it then call it their own!
They are trying to destroy God's creation and I'm here to tell ya, God won't let them get away with it.
They're going to learn:
💫✨Jesus Saves✨💫
Amen, God will NOT be mocked!
We did this!!!
You go girl fight fight angel 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💯
If this video holds value for you SHARE IT!!!!!
Time to take the govt and the FDA to the world court for allowing these monsters to exist!
The FDA is USING and working with the government (DEMONcratic party) CORRUPT influence (the word politics in Latin means influence) in America's government to poison us with this UNGODLY BULL!! DRAIN THE SNAKE PIT SWAMP!! (VOTE) R E D (REPLACE EVERY DEMONcrat)!! #PRIORITY #IMPERATIVE 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪
Lokey Carter you’re a clown.
@@ebetg4191 hey look biden is president now ... 🌍 is a much greener place now than it was a year ago ...wow
@@lokeycarter6679 both parties have been doing this for YEARS republican and democratic parties are used to distract us from the government
@@blahblah7661 that's true but you have to USE the less corrupted party (republican party) AGAINST the SICKENING, DESTRUCTIVE, anti America DEMONcratic party in order to dismantle and get RID of the MAIN corrupted party (DEMONcratic party) FIRST and during are soon afterwards continue to EXPOSE to get RID of the GREEDY, OUTDATED two party system ALTOGETHER!! UNITED WE STAND!! DRAIN THE SWAMP!! SAVE AMERICA!! #TOPPRIORITY #LIMITEDgovernment
"transforming the earth into commodities" wow that line was such a deep one and said so passively as if that is not the root of the problem itself.
Nothing special about that line, it's just one of her misdirection plays.
Now, Commodification of Everything
The mechanistic robotic nature of the human created system is THE problem.
She did a really good job at him and trying to explain to her how the world works that was funny.
The animal kingdom, the botany life, insect life, fowls life, sea life, human life all are interconnected. The opposite side is artificial life and there is disconnect in there. Monopoly in the hands of a few brings in greed and selfishness. It is like the dictators of the past Piscean age. In this age of Aquarius it is all about compassion, empathy, harmony.....with all the above.
genius
Now the problem is Bill gates. Not just Monsanto.
Human overpopulation is the most pressing environmental issues, aggravating the forces behind global warming, environmental pollution, habitat loss, the sixth mass extinction, intensive farming practices and the consumption of finite natural resources, such as fresh water, arable land and fossil fuels, at speeds faster than their rate of regeneration. As the human population continues to explode, finite natural resources, such as fossil fuels, fresh water, arable land, coral reefs and frontier forests, continue to plummet.
70 percent of the land is growing soybean ,sugarcane ,and cotton , end that, the world is not over pop, its wrongly directed, HEMP , SEA WEED, AND PLANTING FRUIT TREES, in ten years would transform the world, plant one tree see how much fruit or nuts you get, plant enough trees they will clean the air ,provide food, and produce a rain cycle, its very simple
An old friend of mine once told me this joke: Q: What does GMO stand for? A: God Move Over!
Why isn't the reporter challenging her??
🙏
She was great. Then eventually the endowments, jet setting lectures and institutional hegemony took over, leaving the farmers, lands, seeds and what-all far behind.
My goodness her bindi is so large. I luv Vandana, she speaks her truth and the naysayers be damned.
Truth = anti science???
Truth is not =anti Science But its = Bad or Corrupt Science.
Science works and there are many respected experts in many fields who have made incredible breakthroughs and continue to.... GMO is just a biological science to give plants certain traits to make them more resilant against many things and use 70% less water. This would help save Millions in 3rd world country from starving AND it is still proven safe and healthy as organic...
No it's not "proven safe and healthy as organic". It can't. You're a joke. What will be result in your health after 20 years ingesting these plants? How will be the next generations? What the consequences on the environment? Do you have studies about that?
Science is also PCBs, the atomic bomb, plastic bags, horrible things...
That's fine you can eat all the GMO crap you like. The market says organic and non-gmo foods are important to many consumers. Eat what you like. I could care less what you put in your mouth.
There are still good people on planet earth who want to save the earth n its people from barbarians..🙏🙏💞💞🌷🌷
Our MOTHER EARTH can feed and shelters all creature of its but not the greed of few corporates and Industrialist. ????
Is that a stop button on her forehead 🛑
She is a physicist not a biologist.
The lotus is known as the purest flower, it’s not for only its look, but also in its genetic blueprint. It’s secret is in the genetic structure of the leaf, that rolls off water in a sphere that bounces off and carries dirt with it. It’s the cleanest flower and became a symbol of purity for ages.
The secret to nature is in the genetic makeup, just as inside us. I used to be against GMOs, for the sake of them being not “natural”, but that’s not true. Everything is nature.
Microbiologists are highly attuned to nature and understanding leaf structure at the micro level to be able to choose which DNA traits for a crop will allow a crop to retain more water, or leaves that angle more up to the sun as they droop.
It’s exactly what ancient farmers did, by choosing the best traits.
Understanding nature at the micro complex structure will give humanity an amazing ability to create amazing things and not be subject to the “dice of fate of nature ”, but to move in harmony with the elements and like magic, wield them.
After learning about how much horrible droughts Africa farm lands are in, and a lack of food, I understand GMOs. It’s using the gift of nature of DNA within the plant to select the best genes for areas were climate concerns are a reality.
I will suggest that it would be best not to use all GMO seeds, but allow for the ones that have part of the natural evolution over years to exist still. Gates bought 50% of farmland to help against drought and famines, and I think he should stop there.
But I see the environmental impact of humans has caused us now to have to “rework” some natural designs in order for them to grow in the dismal climate that human pollutions and green house effects created. Nature is perfect, however humans have made growing conditions very tough and challenging.
GMO seeds are in a way helping plants grow much better in harsher conditions.
Crops are dying because of climate changes, that’s a fact that she does not want to face. Freezing over, droughts and famine are a serious threat. They are beyond natural cycles and seasons of nature.
In Japan, the Cherry Blossom trees bloomed too soon in over hundreds of years, because of the weather change.
There are dying crops from locusts, parasites and not enough light or water due to too cold or too hot weather. When a species becomes able to understand the structure of nature, they can then use it to its highest potential.
I am excited for our world to be one of Nature Tech and Biomimicry, where we use the secrets of nature to create amazing technology. Understanding how to implement the natural technology of nature into our society. 🌸🌿
I found Nova’s documentary called “Human Nature” & “Nature Tech” series on UA-cam or Amazon, show a hopeful future of infinite possibilities.
All is One. Nature and technology, micro and macro, as above so below. There should be no distinction, see all clearly now.
Let me propose a serious question, do you like chemical sprayed pesticides? Or would you rather a plant ward off it’s invaders naturally?
finding the most productive plant is not bad it can be done to an extent with tissue culture, but what she is stating is the companies engaged gmos and trying to create a monopoly by forcing farmers to have to pay companies even when they did not choose by pollination of gmos, we can achieve high productivity by eliminating monocultures, pests can be controlled by biological methods, yes it will not produce mass crops but its healthy and in the long it makes economic sense.
@@ssilva5663 Your comment that "and trying to create a monopoly by forcing farmers to have to pay companies even when they did not choose by pollination of gmos" is false.
@@DukeGMOLOL Why is it false, do you really think these companies invest millions for the betterment of humanity?
@@ssilva5663 You have been misled, but ok then post the direct evidence that any of these companies forced farmers to pay them because of cross pollination. Be sure to post the evidence of "pollination" as that is your claim.
@@DukeGMOLOL who are you duke you are every where to support gmo n mansanto
If she was in charge everyone would be eating dirt and she will say that it is good for them to eat dirt 😡😡😡
Book written on the context of war of mahabharata should not be our ideal.
@@sauryangupta4628 really? So according to u the lecture of Krishna to Arjuna about killing karna was non violent?
@@sonali10380 I don't think so you have read the Mahabharata. The Pandavas tried their best to avoid the war and make peace. But Duryodhana wanted only war.
May not be for you, but u dont get to decide for every indian.
not only monsanto but china buys syngenta as well
So everyone who does the research don't know the real science. And she does because she has a degree in philosophy of science and nothing in regards to actual scientific research?
Modified food for modified DNA 🧬 2023
Are you certain this is decade ago? She hasn’t aged…
Aamish people understood this i think 😶
I disagree with some opinions of her in this interview, else this interview is excellent
She lies about about agriculture across the board.
This educated person wrongly advised Sri Lanka President to go for organic farming and created famine. Will she accept responsibility for millions of death now?
Ill advised, yet advice still taken, and without any proper field testing before a widespread ban. During a time where Sri Lanka's sovereign debt should have been it's main concern. Maintaining stable GDP on their exports meant taking no risks until they economically could. That said, although I do think Vandana bears some responsibility here, so does responsibility lie with those in formal positions of power for Sri Lanka. I am inclined to believe that there are multiple factors at play.
@@NahNoWayy The stupid leaders of Sri Lanka took her advice as an expert, Shiva bears a large share of the blame.
@@DukeGMOLOL Both are too blame and should be held accountable. But we both know that won't happen.
@@NahNoWayy That's right.
Indian state of Sikkim is doing organic farming since decades successfully thanks to her
well being a biotechnologist i think she is totally unaware about what biotechnology and genetically modified things can do.... she should stay within physics....
Bravo.
No way.. she can't be physicist ... she is as quantum scientist Deepaki Chora
I agree. I have learned much about what micro biologists are doing and how deeply they understand the fundamentals of nature at the DNA level. They are doing the same farmers did, by choosing gene traits to grow in extreme climate weather.
Prophettess
False prophetess.
Her ideas destroyed Srilankan Farms 😡😡😡
"I have a degree in quantum physics"
"Proceeds to say a bunch of quantum woo crap"
Yes she does.
@@DukeGMOLOL All you greedy blood suckers hide the truth.
SHE is my Mantra. #WWVSD?
Fool! Shiva is a total fraud. *Shiva has attracted intense criticism from the scientific community for perpetuating long-debunked myths about agriculture, biotechnology and food safety.
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"Shiva is scheduled to speak in late January at Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Cruz on “equitable and sustainable” farming methods. Her positions on a variety of issues have irked and at times outraged scientists who consider her a disseminator of misinformation who profits at the rate of $40,000 a lecture (or more) to spread propaganda critical of mainstream views of biotechnology. Raised in prosperity, this Indian Brahmin was formally trained as a philosopher, embracing and promoting a form of Quantum Theory that is now widely dismissed. She often falsely claims that she is a trained physicist, and those false ‘scientific’ credentials are often echoed by her supporters. The GLP has carried numerous articles about her history of misstatements and fabrications (here, here, here). She was the subject of a scathing critique, “Seeds of Doubt,” by Michael Specter of The New Yorker, which documented her history of misleading claims and what Specter maintained often verged on anti-science gibberish.
For more than three decades, she has relentlessly campaigned against globalization, focusing on food and agriculture socio-economic issues and an opposition to GMOs, free trade and intellectual property rights. She alternately promotes land redistribution, indigenous and peasant farmers’ rights, organic-only food production and ayurvedic health practices over conventional medicines, all of which she characterizes as an “earth democracy” movement necessary to restore “harmony,” people and nature.
Shiva receives financial backing from high-profile activist groups such as the Center for Food Safety, which shares offices with her in Washington. Among her most controversial talking points is her false claim that there was no hunger in India prior to the Green Revolution. The truth is almost 180 degrees the opposite, as the Green Revolution, marked in part by the introduction of synthetic chemical fertilizers and pesticides enable massive increases in food production. A recent review of the evidence shows, “the production of cereal crops tripled during this period, with only a 30% increase in land area cultivated.” Shiva also blames the Green Revolution for increasing poverty, indebtedness and despair among farmers. Her notorious allegation that the introduction of insect-resistant GMO crops in India led many farmers to commit suicide has been evaluated and dismissed as inaccurate. Shiva is also a fierce opponent of so-called Golden Rice, a crop engineered to combat vitamin A deficiency in developing countries.
In response to the scheduling of her two talks at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz, 39 scientists from around the world co-authored an open letter to both universities protesting the invitations. The signatories told the GLP that their aim is to alert the events’ organizers, participants and attendees to the numerous falsehoods in Shiva’s philosophy. The letter, reproduced below in full, blasts Shiva for her “use of anti-scientific rhetoric to support unethical positions.” Neither university has scheduled a scientist to present the evidence-based case for crop biotechnology." geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/01/14/39-biotech-experts-open-letter-protests-anti-gmo-activist-vandana-shivas-anti-science-talks-at-stanford-and-uc-santa-cruz/
Sacred river ganges nasty 🤮
"In June 2014, Indian and international media reported that Navdanya and Vandana Shiva were named in a leaked, classified report by India's Intelligence Bureau (IB), which was prepared for the Indian Prime Minister's Office.[47]
The leaked IB report raises concerns over the foreign-funding of Indian NGOs whose campaigning activities, the report claims, are hampering India's growth and development. In its report, the IB said that Indian NGOs, including Navdanya, receive money from foreign donors under the 'charitable garb' of campaigning for human rights or women's equality, but instead use the money for nefarious purposes. "These foreign donors lead local NGOs to provide field reports which are used to build a record against India and serve as tools for the strategic foreign policy interests of the Western governments," the IB report states.[48]
Investigative journalist Michael Specter, in an article in The New Yorker on 25 August 2014 entitled "Seeds of Doubt",[10] raised concerns over a number of Shiva's claims regarding GMOs and some of her campaigning methods. He wrote: "Shiva's absolutism about G.M.O.s can lead her in strange directions. In 1999, ten thousand people were killed and millions were left homeless when a cyclone hit India's eastern coastal state of Orissa. When the U.S. government dispatched grain and soy to help feed the desperate victims, Shiva held a news conference in New Delhi and said that the donation was proof that "the United States has been using the Orissa victims as guinea pigs" for genetically-engineered products, although she made no mention about that those same products are approved and consumed in the United States. She also wrote to the international relief agency Oxfam to say that she hoped it wasn't planning to send genetically modified foods to feed the starving survivors."[10]
Cases of plagiarism have been pointed out against Vandana Shiva. Birendra Nayak has published on her plagiarism involving copying verbatim from a 1996 article in Voice Gopalpur in her 1998 book Stronger than Steel.[51] Several paragraphs of an article by S Faizi on the Plachimada/Coca-Cola issue published in The Statesman in 2015 were plagiarized by Vandana Shiva in an article she published a year later.[52]
Journalist Keith Kloor, in an article published in Discover on 23 October 2014 entitled "The Rich Allure of a Peasant Champion", revealed that Shiva charges US$40,000 per speaking lecture, plus a business-class air ticket from New Delhi. Kloor wrote: "She is often heralded as a tireless 'defender of the poor,' someone who has courageously taken her stand among the peasant farmers of India. Let it be noted, however, that this champion of the downtrodden doesn't exactly live a peasant's lifestyle."[53] Wikipedia - Shiva
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva#Indian_Intelligence_Bureau_Investigation
Give me the stuff she's smoking
O2
Sorry, Monsanto owns the seed.
Thank God she is not in charge 😡😡😡
You are preaching the opposite. Unlike what you said, not using agrochemicals will cause extinction because it will unable the farmers to produce enough food for the increasing population. You also have to remember the fact that in the present modern era, only 2% of the population are working as farmers and are responsible for feeding the rest 98% of the population. So fewer farmers will need modern agrochemicals to feed others.
Let's be optimistic and not pessimistic (having paranoia that agrochemicals were used to kill people in Hitler's lab also means it is used now to kill us).
Please remember that dosage is what matters. A medication dosage used to cure a person can also kill someone if overdosed (suicide). However, this does not mean that we should stop buying medications to treat ourselves and have the paranoia that doctors want to kill us. The dosage used as agrochemicals is only enough to kill little insects and not large human beings like us. If people are dying due to this, it is because they are not using proper protective equipment while working with fertilizers or they are consuming it on purpose to commit suicide. Again, using proper equipment is necessary for the farmers because they will get exposed to large doses while delivering the medication, however, the residue left on the crops after harvest is minimal and will not harm the consumers as per much evidence in scientific literature.
Everything has risks. That's why there is a Risk vs benefits ratio, eg: every medication has side effects, still it is more beneficial to use it when you are sick.
People, please look for information in scientific literature and people who have enough credits and knowledge in the agricultural field. There is FDA, Health Canada, and many other trustworthy sites to rely on.
She never said what the problem was with GMO seeds. Instead went on a rant on capitalism and its failing. And ofcourse some typical mumbo jumbo.
Why so much pout, does she have to use that accent? What's problem in indian English accent, Shashi Tharoor never uses pout and despite that he speaks flawlessly fluent english. Vandana GM crops are bulwark against changing environment, nothing wrong in em.
She makes absolutely no idea what she is talking about 😡😡😡
GMO is safe, don't believe her 😡😡😡
I didn't need her to tell me that, I already knew it.
Funny how people like Vandana and Deepak Chopra sound like geniuses to idiots but idiots to those who understand the terms and bad science they throw around!!!!
I grow Bonsai tree's which is a very complicated process... I also read science books and journals regularly... I read opn average 2 books a week.... That only shows I am scientifically literate and know what all the science says on these issue's. Most don't even know what a credible source is!!!
Join the facebook page GMOLOL... Full of Farmers and scientist. Let me see you school them since I know they are extremly knowlegable and know that organic not using pesticide is only for about 2% of organic AND they use thing that are older and MORE toxic than round up but 140X with some like Copper SUlfate!
So when will Bill Moyers interview you?
If you equate the words of a meritorious, fully-qualified and much-experienced physicist like Vandana Shiva with the “ fluff physics “ knowledge that Deepak Chopra spouts , then YOU are clearly the idiot at the very outset .
And what does theory of evolution say about interconnection between species? Isn't that a product of science too, Mrs.Vandana Shiva? Your ideas on science are as skewed as that red dot on your forehead. GM foods have saved the life of millions in India and africa. The management of GM foods is a problem I agree but that has nothing to do with science.
Vaibhav what is your view about use of gylphosate
TROLL
GMO helps small farmers!!! DUH!!!!!