{"id":193993,"date":"2021-09-13T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=193993"},"modified":"2021-09-02T06:58:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T05:58:11","slug":"bill-gates-is-continuing-the-work-of-monsanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/09\/bill-gates-is-continuing-the-work-of-monsanto\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bill Gates Is Continuing the Work of Monsanto&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Our guest is Vandana Shiva, a world-famous environmental activist from India. Her latest book is entitled <em>One Earth, One Humanity vs the 1%.<\/em> She tells us about her opposition to big multinationals such as Monsanto for their nefarious influence on agriculture. But Shiva also singles out billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg for criticism. &#8220;<em>When Bill Gates pours money into Africa for feeding the poor and preventing famine, he\u2019s pushing the failed Green Revolution, he\u2019s pushing chemicals, pushing GMOs, pushing patterns<\/em>&#8220;, she tells FRANCE 24&#8217;s Marc Perelman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MNM833K22LM<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Member<\/a> <strong>Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist,<\/strong> 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\u2019 rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the Navdanya Trust.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;When Bill Gates pours money into Africa for feeding the poor and preventing famine, he\u2019s pushing the failed Green Revolution, chemicals, GMOs, patterns.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[229,842,952,1121,232,120,519,354,849,401,248,932,1055,931,759,929,1200,1621,1122,1455,985,380,1120],"class_list":["post-193993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-activism","tag-agri-food","tag-agriculture","tag-biodiversity","tag-capitalism","tag-conflict","tag-ecology","tag-economics","tag-ecosystem","tag-environment","tag-farming","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-genetic-manipulation","tag-gmo","tag-india","tag-monsanto","tag-natures-rights","tag-navdanya-international","tag-organic-food","tag-seeds","tag-social-justice","tag-solutions","tag-vandana-shiva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}