VANDANA SHIVA: Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity and Sustainable Living

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. 

Please see the full article at http://www.ecowalkthetalk.com/blog/2011/03/31/vandana-shiva-traditional-knowl...

The interview was conducted by Geraldine, Emiliano and Bhavani. Bhavani Prakash is the Founder of http://www.ecowalkthetalk.com

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Food is our future - Keep Ireland GM free

Vandana Shiva: The future of food and seed

Scientist, feminist, ecologist and author, Vandana Shiva, presenting the keynote address at the 2009 Organicology Conference in Portland, Oregon, on February 28, 2009.

Monsanto and GMO-s

GMO's are made by manipulation of extremely deadly viruses & bacteria (such as E. coli) that have been engineered to be IMMUNE TO ANTIBIOTICS (Pause video at 8:08). Monsanto spends millions of dollars each year in order to "sugar" coat the facts of what GMO's actually are and more importantly, how they are made.

This video straight-forwardly explains the scientific facts on how Monsanto manufactures their GMO's (Genetically Modified Organisms) by simply removing all the corporate propaganda, the "smoke & mirrors" if you will.

Monsanto's greed, combined with their quest to monopolize all aspects of food & seed on the planet, has knowingly allowed the proverbial Reaper free upon the world.

GMO's are now acting much like the deadly virus and pre-cancer type cells they are made from... by infecting other organisms that were once pure and healthy.

We as a people should be demanding Monsanto be held for crimes against humanity for the atrocities they have committed and what can be reasonably seen as the start of the end to all life as we know it.

The Bee disappearance is in perfect unison with the time line of Monsanto's uncontrolled release of GMO's into the environment; but due to Monsanto's influence & corruption in governments across the globe, any scientist that tries to inform the public and raise the alarm about the Bee's & GMO's is destroyed financially, as well as their careers'.

After watching these videos, will you knowingly look the other way and FEED your family GM foods; even though you now know you could be killing or permanently harming your child/family? 

If you are OUTRAGED at Monsanto's poisoning our food, milk and health; Please do the following actions... make a difference:

1) Call and WRITE (pen & paper) your Legislators

Demand:

2) That they FULLY endorse: "H.R. 6636 GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD RIGHT TO KNOW ACT"

3) An immediate moratorium on all GMO's and their Byproducts!

4) FDA change their findings on GMO's as being "Generally Recognized As Safe"! This was done with ZERO testing by the FDA!

5) Demand a full investigation into the criminal conflicts of interest as it pertains to the head personnel of Monsanto and the FDA being one in the same.

6) Demand congress pass a "whistle blowers protection" for all professional scientists in order to end direct or indirect intimidation by Corporations, Universities, Colleges or Government. Science should never be a result of intimidation.

Public Library of Science

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0004258

Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-drug-resistant-mrsa-in-pigs

Journal of the American Medical Association

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/298/15/1763

Science Direct:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TD6-4PX7B46-5&...

CDC (Center Disease Control):

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol11no12/05-0428.htm

MRSA Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrsa

Is Bayer responsible for the dying off of the bees?

A new article on Gaia Health claims that Bayer's clothianidin is actually the main culprit in the dying off of the honey bees. Excerpts:

Clothianidin is a neonicotinoid, a neuro poison which is equally toxic to all living creatures, including us. They sicken bees, making them disoriented and weak, leaving them open to a host of secondary infections that they normally discharge without significant problems.

We're facing disaster to the environment, to agriculture, to the food supply, and to our own ability to survive because of the probable loss of bees. Pesticide makers like Bayer and Syngenta profit from the sale of a neurological poison that's the cause of the die-off of bees.

"This is the critical winter for the beekeeping industry. I don't think we can survive. If the beekeeping industry collapses, it jeopardizes a third of American agriculture." Tom Theobold- beekeeper; his honey crops are the smallest he has ever seen in the last 35 years. 

To read EPA's involvement and the rest of the article, please click here.

Bayer (an eco-criminal according to many) is the European equivalent of Monsanto. To read Bayer's history, please click here and here.

Dr Vandana Shiva receives Sydney Peace Prize

Vandana Shiva : Sydney Peace Prize Talk from WisdomKeepers Productions on Vimeo.

Dr Shiva is the woman behind the movement Navdanya, a network of seed keepers and organic producers spreading across 16 states in India. The movement taught 500 000 farmers how to produce food organically, sustainably, preserving crop biodiversity. It has created awareness on the dangers of genetic engineering, defended ancient Indian plants (like neem, basmati and haldi) from biopiracy- from the likes of Monsanto which is in a mad rush of patenting seeds and other food sources in order to control the world's food supply.