Articles by Vandana Shiva

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Regenerative Agroecology: The Necessary Solution to Counter Climate Change
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – Industrial agriculture sees the world as a machine, not as a self-organized living system, and has created devastation contributing to climate change. Our latest report, ‘Regeneration is Life‘, presented at Cop28 in Dubai, analyzes the causes of climate change and the regenerative solutions vis-a-vis the false solutions by polluters.

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Soil Not Oil: Transforming the Industrial Fossil Fuel Food System into Fossil Fuel Free, Biodiverse, Regenerative Food Systems
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

13 Oct 2023 – Industrial Agriculture Is Rupturing the Planetary Boundaries and Driving Climate Change – How living soil teeming with microbes and fungi can mitigate climate change and increase nutrition, just as Earth’s ecology regulated climate over billions of years. Working with nature to address environmental ills.

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Beyond Climate Colonialism and Food Imperialism to Earth Democracy and Food Freedom
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

6 Sep 2023 – Mother Earth is a sacred, self organized living being. She creates and sustains life. Through her biosphere and her complex ecological processes, she regulates her water systems, her nutrition cycles, and her climate system.

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Freedom in Diversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

1 Jun 2023 – Now is the time to reject the industrial agriculture model, a model that came from and behaves like war. Industrial agriculture is destroying life on Earth, the role of women in food and farming, our health, and the health of the planet.

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Message from Dr Vandana Shiva for Holi and Women’s Day
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

8 Mar 2023 – Women of the world are the primary guardians and custodians of biodiversity and life. They are holding and protecting the ancient and precious knowledge on how to use and preserve biodiversity for healthy food, healthy communities and healthy environments.

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Holi: The Colours of Biodiversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

8 Mar 2023 – This year, International Women’s Day falls on the same day of Holi, the festival of colours, joy and diversity: 8 March. On this day, millions of people take to the streets to celebrate the coming of spring by throwing coloured powders.

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What Is Missing from the Climate Debate
Dr. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

7 Nov 2022 – “The destabilisation of the Earth’s climate systems is the consequence of violating the ecological processes and cycles of the earth, violating the Rights of the Earth, Rights of Indigenous People, and the Rights of Future Generations. — Dr. Vandana Shiva

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Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits – A Food Crisis by Design
Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022

14 Jul 2022 – Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, headlines have been dominated by the global food supply shortages and rising food prices. Detailed in this new report is how, in fact, we have already been facing a food and malnutrition crisis long before the current conflict.

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Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits – A Food Crisis by Design
Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022

14 Jul 2022 – Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, headlines have been dominated by the global food supply shortages and rising food prices. Detailed in this new report is how, in fact, we have already been facing a food and malnutrition crisis long before the current conflict.

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The Nitrogen Problem in Agriculture
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jul 2022

7 Jul 2022 – Reduce the use of chemical fertilisers, make the chemical industry pay for pollution instead of criminalising farmers who were trapped by the chemical treadmill through industrial agriculture.

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Dr. Vandana Shiva: ‘The Evolved Mind Sees Earth as One Family’
David Marks interviews Vandana Shiva | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

6 Apr 2022 – Environmental champion shares her perspective on how the degradation of the planet can be reversed by returning to traditional organic farming practices and compassionate community organization.

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The Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods: False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

31 Mar 2022 – Fully artificial food is an increasingly popular trend focused on developing a new line of synthetically produced, ultra-processed food products by using recent advances in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. These new products seek to imitate and replace animal products, food additives, and expensive, rare, or socially conflictive ingredients (such as palm oil).

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Vandana Shiva on the Dangers of Philanthrocapitalism
Vandana Shiva | Nonviolence Radio Team – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Mar 2022

28 Feb 2022 – Physicist, ecologist and prolific author Vandana Shiva discusses her new book, “Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy,“ which identifies a new form of colonialism turning us away from each other and the Earth.

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Climate Change Is Ecological Destruction: Greenwashing and False Solutions at COP 26
Navdanya International (Vandana Shiva) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Nov 2021

9 Nov 2021 – The same line of thinking and actions that are driving climate change is leading to biodiversity loss, extinction of species, and the hunger, malnutrition, and health emergencies. The climate crisis is a symptom of the broader ecological crisis being perpetuated by an extractivist and profit-driven system.

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Rewilding Food, Rewilding Our Mind & Rewilding the Earth
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Oct 2021

20 Oct 2021 – Regenerating Biodiversity in our farms, forests, and our Gut Microbiome for Zero Hunger and Good – Mother Earth is self-organised. Mother Earth has created and sustained Diversity.

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“Carbon Capture” – Two World Views, Two Technology Paradigms, Two Economic Systems, Two Futures
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

6 Oct 2021 – The Earth is Living. She is Gaia, Pachamama, Vasundhara, Terra Madre. For indigenous cultures she is Mother Earth. Even scientists like James Lovelock call her Gaia because they have understood that she is living. The living Earth is a biological self organised self-regulated living system. She is auotopoietic. She has evolved her biodiversity and her complex biosphere over billions of years.  Through the biosphere she creates and regulates her climate systems. The Earth’s living systems ,the “Gaian system”, self-regulates global temperature, atmospheric content, ocean salinity, thus maintaining the infrastructure for life to persist and evolve .

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(Italiano) Intervista con Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

30 Settembre 2021 – In prossimità dell’inizio della terza edizione del Festival della Nonviolenza e della Resistenza Civile, presentiamo un’intervista a Vandana Shiva per una riflessione e una sintesi sui temi che saranno affrontati da diverse angolature nelle giornate del Festival.

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The Poison Cartel Is Poisoning the World, Driving Species to Extinction, and Contributing to Hunger
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

1 Aug 2021 Pachamama Day – The web of life is a food web woven by Pachamama through her self-organization, creativity, generative power and regeneration. Food is the flow that embodies our relationship to the earth, materially, biologically, nutritionally, ecologically. Food is the currency of life which flows from biodiversity in living soil, through plants and insects, to sustain the biodiversity in our gut microbiome.

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‘Bill Gates Is Continuing the Work of Monsanto’
Vandana Shiva | FRANCE 24 – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Sep 2021

Vandana Shiva, a world-famous environmental activist from India, tells us about her opposition to big multinationals such as Monsanto for their nefarious influence on agriculture. But she also singles out billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. “When Bill Gates pours money into Africa for feeding the poor and preventing famine, he’s pushing the failed Green Revolution, chemicals, GMOs, patterns.”

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Sowing Seeds of Freedom from Hunger, Malnutrition and Disease
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Aug 2021

14 Aug 2021 – The Industrial agriculture model is based on violence and war–war against the earth and against our bodies. It has created structural hunger, malnutrition and disease… Our work has shown that we can address both SDG 2 on zero hunger and SDG 3 on good health and wellbeing for all by regenerating and cultivating biodiversity in our minds, on our farms, in our gut. How we grow our food, and what we eat, is the single biggest change each of us can make to regenerate the earth.

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UNFSS – Where Multinationals Continue to Design Our Food Systems and Control Our Diets
Navdanya International | Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Aug 2021

27 Jul 2021 – The Pre-Summit of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) taking place in Rome, as a preparative stage to the New York September Summit, is, as expected, going in the wrong direction. As many civil society members, as well as past and current Rapporteurs on the Right to Food, have denounced, this summit is yet another instrument to reinforce corporate control over food and agriculture, while attempting to restrain civil society’s role in global food governance.

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Divide & Rule: The Plan of the 1% to Make You DISPOSABLE
Vandana Shiva | After Skool – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021

16 Mar 2021 -TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of more than 20 books and 500 papers. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and has campaigned for biodiversity, conservation and farmers’ rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the Navdanya Trust.

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Future of Planetary and People’s Health
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 May 2021

27 May 2021 – The Health and Climate Emergency are interconnected: Their common roots are an energy intensive, chemical intensive corporate controlled globalized food system that puts profits above people and planet. – A reflection on why we must avoid fake food, fake science , face economics which puts profits above people and planet.

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Earth Democracy: Recognising the Rights of Nature, Respecting Human Rights
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Apr 2021

21 Apr 2021 – Earth Democracy is a world view, paradigm and practice that is based on the recognition that everything is interconnected, the Earth Is Living, the Earth has rights, that we have duties to care for the Earth , and regenerate her soil, seeds and biodiversity, her water and food systems. Our rights flow like a spring from our duties.

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Reclaim the Seed
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Apr 2021

3 Decades of Seed Satyagraha & Defense of Seed Freedom

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The Empires of Gates- Interview with Vandana Shiva, Ph.D.
Joseph Marcola interviews Vandana Shiva - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Apr 2021

6 Mar 2021 – Vandana Shiva discusses the importance and benefits of regenerative agriculture and a future Regeneration International project that we’ll be collaborating on. She says, “… if In the next decade we don’t protect what has to be protected … and take away the sainthood from this criminal, they will leave nothing much to be saved.”

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Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Independent Science News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Mar 2021

In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a TED Talk. The real threat to life, he said, is “not missiles, but microbes.” When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth five years later, he revived the war language, describing the pandemic as “a world war.” In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited.

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Cry of the Himalaya: 4 Decades of Disasters, 4 Decades of Warning
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Feb 2021

8 Feb 2021 – The Himalayan disasters do not have local causes or local consequences. The melting of glaciers is a direct impact of fossil fuel industrialism , leading to Green House gas emissions and Climate Change. Every year Himalaya Glaciers are losing one and a half feet of snow.

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Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Stop the Machine and Defend Our Humanity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Children's Health Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Oct 2020

In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a TED Talk. The real threat to life, he said, is “not missiles, but microbes.” When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth five years later, he revived the war language, describing the pandemic as “a world war.” In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited.

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Simplicity Revolution
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jul 2020

World Simplicity Day 12 Jul 2020 – Simplicity Revolution: An ecological and ethical imperative to protect life on earth and ensure justice for all beings. The Corona Lockdown has forced us to shed the clutter and the speed and become an invitation to humanity to differentiate between the essential and non essential. In making us stay home, the crisis creates the possibility of realising that no matter who we are, where we are, we are members of one Earth Family and share a common home, our beautiful Earth.

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Jaivik Bharat
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jun 2020

On 10th June 1947 at a prayer meeting Gandhi had said: “The first lesson we must learn is of self-help and self reliance. If we assimilated this lesson we shall at once free ourselves from disastrous dependence on foreign countries and ultimate bankruptcy. This is not said in arrogance but as a matter of fact. We are not a small place, dependent for this food supply upon outside help. We are a subcontinent, a nation of nearly 400 million (now 1.3 billion). We are a country of mighty rivers and a rich variety of agricultural land, with inexhaustibe cattle wealth …”

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The Path beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jun 2020

Message for World Environment Day, 5 Jun 2020 – On 31st May, while people were dying during the Corona Pandemic, while millions had lost their livelihoods and were going hungry during the “lockdown”…, billionaire Elon Musk launched Space X. For me this was a brutal display of the hubris, indifference and power of the 1% who have pushed ecosystems, communities, countries and humanity to the brink.

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World Bee Day: Poisons Mean Extinction for Bees and Humanity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, the UN designated 20 May as World Bee Day. The choices before humanity are clear, a Poison Free Future to save Bees, Farmers, our Food and Humanity. Or continue to use poisons, threatening our common future by walking blindly to extinction through the arrogance that we can substitute bees with artificial intelligence and robots.

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My Earth Journey
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

At the peak of the Corona Pandemic and in the midst of the Lock Down, on 26 March, Microsoft was granted the World Patent # WO 2020/060606 by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Just as our Biodiversity and Indigenous knowledge were “mined” — for patenting and Biopiracy, there is now an attempt to mine and pirate the data from our bodies and minds, without our permission and consent. Our humanity and autonomy are being stolen. We are being reduced to “users” of the “machines” which are extracting our humanity and our information to build the next stage of the mechanical, money machine.

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May Day Message
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

1 May 2020 – We are witnessing 3 pandemics simultaneously: The Corona Pandemic, the Hunger Pandemic, and the Pandemic of Destruction of Livelihoods. We are One Humanity on One Planet. Autonomy, meaning, dignity, work, freedom, democracy are our birthright.

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Earth Day Communiqué
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

21 April 2020 – The health emergency we face as a global community is strictly connected to the health emergency the Earth is facing. This Earth Day over 500 organisations, movements and leaders from over 50 countries call for integrated action putting the health and wellbeing of all peoples and the planet at the centre of government and institutional policy, community building and civic action.

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Rewilding Food, Rewilding Farming
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Ecologist – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2020

Dr Vandana Shiva argues that agroecology holds the key to solving the climate and ecological crisis in a just and equitable way.

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Ecological Reflections on the Corona Virus
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020

One Planet, One Health–Connected through Biodiversity: From the forests to our farms to our gut microbiome – We are one Earth Family on one planet , healthy in our diversity and interconnectedness. The planet’s health and our health is non separable .

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Growing Gardens of Diversity Weaving Gardens of Love
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2020

15 Jan 2020 – Diversity is the Hindustan Way. In these times of limitless greed and manufactured division and hate, we resist by living and thinking through, and with, our diversities as one humanity on one planet. We grow gardens of Diversity. We weave garlands of love.

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Oikonomia: Bringing the Economy Back to the Earth
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2019

Today’s Big Money is also anti nature. It is based on a paradigm of hyper anthropocentrism; of the continued assumption that nature is dead matter, and domination, conquest and control over the earth through violent tools and technologies is the “civilizing” mission of the men with Big Money. It is based on owing life though patents, privatization and enclosures of the commons, and the hubris of trying to engineer the planet through geo engineering.

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Monsanto Is Not Gandhi: Crimes against Nature and Society Are Not “Satyagraha”
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2019

In June 2019, Monsanto lobbyists announced that farmers will illegally plant Bt Brinjal as a “Satyagraha”. This is outright criminal action. Farmers acting on behest of Monsanto are criminals and will be treated as such.

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Industrial Agriculture, Based on War Technologies, Kills Millions of Species: Agroecology Is the Future
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2019

It Is Driving the Sixth Mass Extinction – Corporations of the Poison Cartel have given us decades of ecocide, genocide through war chemicals. As the alternative, Agroecology includes all chemical free ecological farming systems, including Organic Farming, Permaculture, Biodynamic Agriculture, and different schools of natural farming.

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We Need Biodiversity-Based Agriculture to Solve the Climate Crisis
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2019

The Earth is living, and also creates life. Over 4 billion years the Earth has evolved a rich biodiversity–an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems–that can meet all our needs and sustain life. We can repair the Earth’s ruptured carbon cycle by recarbonizing it with the living carbon of biodiversity.

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Education and Knowledge Can Stop the Fake “Science” of Multinationals That Is Leading the Planet and Society to Collapse
Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2019

Now that the dominant model is showing its inadequacies and failures, we must necessarily recognize the plurality of knowledge systems and the potential of their integration, which is essential to increase our capacity for survival as a species. Adaptation in times of turbulence requires maintaining high levels of freedom and choice. This requires diversity in all its forms.

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(Italiano) È ora di finire la guerra contro la Terra
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2019

14 Ottobre 2019 – Quando pensiamo alle guerre ai nostri tempi, volgiamo la mente all’Iraq e all’Afghanistan. Ma la guerra più grossa è quella contro il pianeta. È una guerra con le radici in un’economia che manca di rispettare i limiti ecologici ed etici – limiti all’ineguaglianza, all’ingiustizia, all’avidità e alla concentrazione economica.

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Satyagraha for a Sacred Economy
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2019

2 October, Gandhi’s 150th Birth Anniversary – Satyagraha for Life–Sowing the Seeds of Life and Freedom through the Power of Truth, Creativity and Nonviolence

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Seeds of Sustenance/Freedom vs. Seeds of Suicide/Surveillance
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2019

Corporations that made war chemicals introduced these chemicals as agrichemicals. In the first Green Revolution they changed the seeds to adapt to chemicals. In the second Green Revolution they tried to own and control the seed itself through genetic engineering and patents. There is now an attempt to introduce the third Green Revolution with total control over the seed through the convergence of industrial breeding and surveillance digital technologies. What is at stake is our biodiversity and our freedom.

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(Italiano) India tra fame e sete
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2019

12 Settembre 2019 – I Ghats occidentali ci hanno dato le spezie. E l’Himalaya ci ha dato amaranto, grano saraceno e una grande varietà di altre colture nutrienti. Oggi l’India sta affrontando un’emergenza idrica e un’emergenza nutrizionale. Le due emergenze sono interconnesse. Le origini dell’emergenza che viviamo oggi risalgono a 40-50 anni fa con i «consigli» della Banca Mondiale e con la cosiddetta «rivoluzione verde», che ha distrutto le nostre risorse d’acqua, il nostro suolo, la nostra biodiversità.

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(Italiano) Vivere nella casa comune
Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2019

Aristotele aveva definito l’”oikonomia” come l’arte di vivere, differenziandola dalla “crematistica”, l’arte di fare soldi. Oggi l’economia, spiega Vandana Shiva, “è diventata solo una brutale macchina da soldi che sta distruggendo le case dei poveri e la nostra casa comune. È diventata una guerra contro le persone e il pianeta… Anche il significato originale di ricchezza è benessere e felicità, non denaro…

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Fake Food, Fake Meat: Big Food’s Desperate Attempt to Further the Industrialisation of Food
Dr Vandana Shiva | Independent Science News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019

18 Jun 2019 – Food is not a commodity, it is not “stuff” put together mechanically and artificially in labs and factories. Food is life. Food holds the contributions of all beings that make the food web, and it holds the potential of maintaining and regenerating the web of life. Food also holds the potential for health and disease, depending on how it was grown and processed. Food is therefore the living currency of the web of life.

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Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
Prof. Vandana Shiva – YES! Magazine, 13 May 2019

3 May 2019 – My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. We need to value nature’s biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher.

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Vandana Shiva on the Smallholder Farmers Who Feed the World
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Gaia Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

Opening of the We Feed the World exhibition in London, 11 Oct 2018.

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Saving Seeds at Home
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Growing Club – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2018

Seed saving is one of the important skills that has been lost of the last century, and Dr. Shiva’s work to preserve heirloom seed varieties, encourage organic farming, and create food sovereignty is some of the most important work of our time. We hope you enjoy this video and will start saving seeds at home yourself.

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The Bayer-Monsanto Merger: Empowering a Life-Destroying Cartel
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Ellen Brown, Nick Meyer and Michael Welch– Global Research, 28 May 2018

20 May 2018 – This merger has implications not only for what goes on our dinner plate. There are questions of economic and political control that need to be addressed. Critics argue that the power of these economic giants is such that they have ‘captured’ regulatory agencies. Limitless financial resources permit these and similar companies to buy off academics, media and politicians.

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Monsanto-Bayer “Combination” – Comments Submitted to Competition Commission of India
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jan 2018

20 Jan 2018 – I submit my comments and objections to the proposed combination between Bayer and Monsanto. The first part is substantive objections to the Bayer application in the context of the past and potential violations of the Competition Act, 2002. The Second part is my comments on the general impacts of the Bayer Monsanto merger for farmers rights, food security and sovereignty in India and globally.

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Peddling Poisons, Selling Seeds of Suicide
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2017

24 Nov 2017 – Over two decades Monsanto has violated laws, deceived Indian farmers by making unscientific and fraudulent claims, extracted super profits through illegal royalty collection by violating India’s Patent and Intellectual Property laws, pushed farmers into debt, and, as a consequence of the debt trap, to suicide. It is time to get unshackled from the Seeds of Suicide and pesticides and pesticide deaths. Through Seeds of freedom and Seeds of Hope we can go forward to GMO free Agroecology.

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(Italiano) I big data non indicano niente – se non il disastro
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2017

Il nostro cibo e la nostra agricoltura hanno due futuri diversi. Il primo porta in un vicolo cieco. Un pianeta morto. Diffusione di veleni e di monoculture chimiche. Contadini che si suicidano a causa dei debiti per i semi e i prodotti chimici. Bambini che muoiono per mancanza di cibo. Persone che muoiono di malattie croniche che si diffondono a causa di merci senza contenuto nutritivo o addirittura tossiche vendute come cibo. E devastazioni climatiche che spazzano via le condizioni per la vita dell’uomo sulla Terra. Il secondo porta al ringiovanimento del pianeta…

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Big Data Doesn’t Add Up – Except to Disaster
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine, 13 Nov 2017

There are two distinct futures for our food and farming. One leads to a dead planet. Poisons and chemical monocultures spreading. Children dying for lack of food. People dying from chronic diseases spreading due to nutritionally empty, toxic commodities sold as food. The second future leads to the rejuvenation of the planet through rejuvenation of biodiversity, soils and water, rejuvenation of small farms, and diverse, healthy, fresh, ecological food for all.

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The Farmers’ Crisis
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2017

5 Jul 2017 – India’s small farmers produce more diversity, more food and nutrition per acre than farmers in industrialised countries. Even today, they feed more than 1.3 billion people. Then why are Indian farmers committing suicide today? The root cause is the separation of agriculture from nutrition, and from ecology.

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Sowing the Seeds of Earth Democracy in Trump Times: The Planetary Crisis, Responsibilities and Rights
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2017

5th of June is World Environment Day. Reflections on President Trump abandoning his responsibility to the Earth and the community of nations.

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(Italiano) Seminare il futuro, seminare la libertà – un seme per volta
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2017

L’umanità si trova di fronte a un bivio della sua evoluzione. Possiamo scegliere la via dell’”Unità” (“Oneness”), consapevoli del nostro essere parte di Un Pianeta, di Una Umanità, e vivere celebrando le nostre molte diversità, interconnesse attraverso legami di compassione, interdipendenza, solidarietà. O…

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Seeding the Future, Seeding Freedom, One Seed at a Time
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Feb 2017

8 Feb 2017 – Humanity stands at an evolutionary crossroad. We can consciously choose the path of Oneness – of our being part of One Planet, One Humanity, living and celebrating our many diversities, interconnected through bonds of compassion, interdependence, and solidarity. Or…

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Ending a Century of Ecocide and Genocide, Seeding Earth Democracy
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2016

Hundreds of People’s Assemblies, being organized everywhere, will make commitments to create a healthy future of food and of the planet. From the People’s Assemblies we will launch a boycott campaign, to liberate our seeds and soils, our communities and societies, our planet and ourselves, from poisons and the rule of the poison cartel.

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Monsanto and the Poisonous Cartel of GMOs in India
Vandana Shiva | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2016

11 Sep 2016 – Engaged in litigation on many fronts, Monsanto is trying to subvert India’s patent laws: Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Right Act, Essential Commodities Act and Competition Act. It is behaving as if there is no Parliament, no democracy, no sovereign laws in India to which it is subject. Or it simply doesn’t have any regard for them.

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Genetic Engineering (Part 1): #SCIENCE!
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2016

19 Aug 2016 – A few weeks ago, global corporate PR decided to #RoundUp 107 Nobel Laureates in a bid to rescue #GoldenRice from its #Fantastic #Failure. Knights of the “pure science”, to the rescue of its Gold– the rice and a few “Scientists” even rising from the grave. Nobel – rooted in the Chemical Industry – has served as the Cathedral of Knowledge.

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Genetic Engineering (Part 2): Cloned Chemical Colonies
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2016

19 Aug 2016 – The Gaia footprint of chemicals has depressed the life out of our planet. Nature is resilient; when pushed, nature pushes back. Nature evolves. Greed does not. Survival of the fittest?

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Free People from the Standardised Dictatorship of the 0.01%
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Aug 2016

Chemical corporations are trying to impose patents on all living organisms… They are trying to destroy our local food systems and replace them with industrial junk food by changing food and health safety as well as bio-safety, through ‘harmonisation’.

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False Promises and Failures of Genetic Engineering: Avoid ‘Miracle’ Rice and Just Eat a Carrot
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Aug 2016

Golden rice is a false miracle. It is a disease of nutritionally empty monocultures offered as a cure for nutritional deficiency. In fact, golden rice, if successful, will be 400% less efficient in providing Vitamin A…

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Biodiversity, GMOs, Gene Drives and the Militarised Mind
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2016

Gene Drives have been called “mutagenic chain reactions”, and are to the biological world what chain reactions are to the nuclear world. The Guardian describes Gene Drives as the “gene bomb”. Kevin Esvelt of MIT exclaims “a release anywhere is likely to be a release everywhere”, and asks “Do you really have the right to run an experiment where if you screw up, it affects the whole world?”

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The Earth and the People Are Not Inputs to Your Capitalist System
Vandana Shiva interviewed by Ethemcan Turhan – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2016

You have this strange asymmetry today that corporations are globally organised; they are everywhere. They control every government and governments are doing the same thing everywhere. Yet every opportunity is used to prevent citizens from connecting up.

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The Great Seed Piracy
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age, 27 Jun 2016

16 Jun 2016 – A great seed and biodiversity piracy is underway and it must be stopped. The privateers of today include not just the corporations but also individuals like Bill Gates, the “richest man in the world”. Besides taking control of the seeds of farmers in CGIAR seed banks, Bill Gates (along with the Rockefeller Foundation) is investing heavily in collecting seeds from across the world and storing them in a facility in Svalbard in the Arctic — the ‘doomsday vault’.

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Seeds of Suicide
Vandana Shiva – Asian Age, 23 May 2016

May 22 has been declared International Biodiversity Day by the United Nations. Patents on seeds are unjust and unjustified. A patent or any intellectual property right is a monopoly granted by society in exchange for benefits. But society has no benefit in toxic, non-renewable seeds.

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Monsanto vs Indian Farmers
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Mar 2016

If we believe in democracy, it is imperative that we have the right to choose which technologies are best for our communities, rather than having unaccountable institutions like Monsanto decide for us. Rather than technologies designed for the continued enrichment of a few, we can ground our technology in a hope of a greater harmony between our human communities and the natural world.

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Make Monsanto Pay
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age, 7 Mar 2016

Herbicide tolerance, which goes hand in hand with Monsanto’s Glyphosate based RoundUp herbicide, has failed across the world at controlling weeds, creating super weeds. Glyphosate, classified by the World Health Organisation as a carcinogen, is already being used across India and we are seeing an explosion of cancers in villages where Glyphosate is used.

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Free Basics: Corporate Freedom to Privatise India’s Basic Economy
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jan 2016

Mark Zuckerberg is in India with ₹100 crore, in pocket change, for advertising. Facebook’s Free Basics is a repackaged internet.org, or in other words, a system where Facebook decides what parts of the internet are important to users.

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COP21: Emissions Gap Must Be Addressed
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age, 28 Dec 2015

This “emissions gap” cannot be enforced through the Paris agreement. It rests on nations scaling up their commitments to reduce emissions, but most importantly, on citizens’ movements leading the path to a lower GHG pathway, while enhancing climate resilience and human well being. That’s why citizens must push for “liability” in terms of emissions — the principle “polluter pays”.

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Corporate Imperialism – The Only Reason for GMOs
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Nov 2015

The Papal Bull of 1493 -Inter Caetera- and the concept of Terra Nullius allowed the Catholic Church, and the Empires of the time, to change the destiny of millions of people and their cultures around the world, by allowing Europe to grab what it wanted from faraway lands. Terra Nullius, Latin, meaning ‘empty lands’ or ‘lands that belong to no one’ was a novel concept.

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West’s ‘Fail-Anthropy’: Agri-Corporations Attempt to Hijack COP21
Dr. Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 16 Nov 2015

As we head into the Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris, agri-corporations are attempting to hijack climate talks once again. Today we are faced with two crises on a planetary scale—climate change and species extinction. Our current modes of production and consumption are contributing to anthropogenic emissions—originating from human activity.

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We Don’t Need Ketchum in Our Mustard
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Nov 2015

It saddens me to think that a woman is unable to see the destruction we are causing to the world our children will inherit. I hope, for the sake of Kavin’s child/ren (if any) that the future of food we pick, as humanity, is nourishing, sustainable, equitable, climate mitigating and diverse – a future of food based on Agroecology.

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Pests, Pesticides and Propaganda: The Story of Bt Cotton
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Oct 2015

Bt. crops are a continuation of a non-sustainable strategy for pest control, which, instead of controlling pests, creates new pests and super pests. Monsanto advertised that Bt cotton would not need pesticide sprays, clearly a case of false advertising.

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The Food Dharma
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age, 14 Sep 2015

The imposition of GMOs violates the dharma of food… Instead of seeing food as the creator, corporations developing GMOs are taking over the role of ‘creator’ through ‘patents’ on life.

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Bija Swaraj Not Bt Raj: The Future Is Organic, Not GMOs
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Aug 2015

31 Aug 2015 – Farmers, first of all, are breeders. They might not have the lab coats that have come to define modern plant breeding, but their wisdom, knowledge and contribution is unquestionable. To be able to continue breeding, using their own seed, is their first right, their first freedom and their first duty.

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Myths of the Green Revolution and GMOs
A backgrounder by Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Aug 2015

15 Aug 2015 – I wrote a book for the United Nations University titled ‘The Violence of the Green Revolution’, which has been republished by many publishers globally, including the Kentucky University Press. Extracts from the book are available on Google.

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An Agenda for Freedom from Hunger, Malnutrition, Disease and Farmers Suicides
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Aug 2015

A message for India’s Independence Day, 14 Aug 2015 – There is no reason why India should face hunger and malnutrition, and why our farmers should commit suicide.

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How Monsanto Wrote and Broke Laws to Enter India
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2015

21 Jul 2015 – Citizens of the United States are being denied the right to know what they are feeding their families despite the fact that 90% of American citizens want GMO labelling on their food. Decades before there was a “debate” over GMOs and Monsanto’s PR and law firms became the busiest of bees, India was introduced to this corrupting, corporate giant that had no respect for the laws of the land.

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Eat Local
Prof. Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 20 Jul 2015

14 Jul 2015 – Rebuilding the broken food system, its ecological cycles and the broken links between the city and the countryside means creating food-smart citizens who know what they are eating.

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Soil, Papered Over
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jun 2015

The rhetoric for taking over food systems and seed supply is always based on ‘improved seed’. But industrial seeds are only ‘improved’ in the context of higher dependence on chemicals, and more control by corporations.

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Storm in Maggi’s Cup
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age, 15 Jun 2015

Nestlé pulls Maggi — its nutritionally empty noodle snack — from shelves in India. Nestlé’s objective, aligned with every global multinational jockeying for position to control more and more of our food market, is profits — even if that means compromising consumers’ health.

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Women and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2015

The two great ecological challenges of our times are biodiversity erosion and climate change. And both are interconnected, in their causes and their solutions. Industrial agiculture is the biggest contributor to biodiversity erosion as well as to climate change. According to the United Nations, 93% of all plant variety has disappeared over the last 80 years.

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Biodiversity or GMOs: Will the Future of Nutrition Be in Women’s Hands or under Corporate Control?
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2015

Declaration for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2015 – Women have been the primary growers of food and nutrition throughout history, but today, food is being taken out of our hands and substituted for toxic commodities controlled by global corporations.

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GMO Corporate Fiction
Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 12 Jan 2015

To claim that by adding one gene a corporation creates the seed and all future generations of that seed is an ontological flaw, a scientific outrage and an ethical violation.

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Bhopal: A metaphor
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age, 8 Dec 2014

The pattern of double standards, of privatising profits and socialising disaster runs through the pattern of corporate rule being institutionalised since the Bhopal tragedy.

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(Italiano) La crescita economica crea povertà
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Centro Studi Sereno Regis, 18 Nov 2014

Abbiamo bisogno di creare parametri che vadano oltre il PIL, economie che vadano oltre il supermercato globale, che riscoprano la vera ricchezza e l’autentico benessere. Abbiamo bisogno di ricordare che la vera moneta della vita è la vita stessa.

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Barriers to Sustainable Farming Put Burden on World’s Poor
Prof. Vandana Shiva, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2014

The conflict between “free trade” and food rights came to the fore again at the WTO negotiations in September [2014], when India did not back down from its stance that a permanent solution be found for food security issues before signing the Trade Facilitation Agreement.

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Seeds of Truth: A Response to Michael Specter’s Article in The New Yorker
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Sep 2014

Michael Specter’s piece is poor journalism. I wonder why a journalist who has been Bureau Chief in Moscow for The New York Times and Bureau Chief in New York for the Washington Post, and clearly is an experienced reporter, would submit such a misleading piece. Or why The New Yorker would allow it to be published as honest reporting, with so many fraudulent assertions and deliberate attempts to skew reality.

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The Galileo Syndrome?
Vandana Shiva – Asian Age, 25 Aug 2014

Prakash Javadekar said: ‘Galileo was telling the truth and he was punished.’ Monsanto and its lobbyists are today’s Church. And independent scientists speaking the truth about GMOs and their impact on society, health and environment are today’s Galileos.

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Fine Print of the Food Wars
Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 4 Aug 2014

Creating ‘ownership’ of seed through patents and intellectual property rights and imposing it globally through the WTO, the biotech industry has established a monopoly empire over seed and food.

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We Are the Soil
Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 2 Jun 2014

The claim that the Green Revolution or genetic engineering feeds the world is false. These technologies are monocultures based on chemical inputs, a recipe for killing the life of the soil. We are made up of the same five elements — earth, water, fire, air and space — that constitute the Universe. We are the soil. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. And it is no accident that the words “humus” and “humans” have the same roots.

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Marching Against Monsanto Is Marching for Freedom and Democracy
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2014

I send greetings of solidarity for all the people gathered for the March against Monsanto [24 May 2014]. Marching against Monsanto is marching for freedom and democracy, for health and safety, for seed and biodiversity. People often ask me “Why Monsanto”?

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Seeds of Freedom
Vandana Shiva - The Asian Age, 5 May 2014

The jurisprudence of intellectual property rights related to life forms is, in fact, a jurisprudence of ‘Bio Nullius’ — life empty of intelligence. The Earth is defined as dead matter.

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