{"id":20420,"date":"2012-07-23T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=20420"},"modified":"2018-02-11T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T11:25:04","slug":"vandana-shiva-on-the-problem-with-genetically-modified-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/07\/vandana-shiva-on-the-problem-with-genetically-modified-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically-Modified Seeds (Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill talks to scientist and philosopher Vandana Shiva, who&#8217;s become a rock star in the global battle over genetically modified seeds. These seeds &#8212; considered &#8220;intellectual property&#8221; by the big companies who own the patents &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fG17oEsQiEw<\/p>\n<p><em>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\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>Bill talks to scientist and philosopher Vandana Shiva, who&#8217;s become a rock star in the global battle over genetically modified seeds. These seeds &#8212; considered &#8220;intellectual property&#8221; by the big companies who own the patents &#8212; are globally marketed to monopolize food production and profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","category-music-video-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420","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=20420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}