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Reclaiming Our Roots: Dr. Vandana Shiva
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Reclaiming Our Roots: Dr. Vandana Shiva by YourEnchantedGardener .....
Reclaiming Our Roots: A Return to the Soil A Conversation with Dr. Vandana Shiva
Date: 7/7/2009 11:01:26 PM ( 15 y ago)
8:59 PM
July 7, 09
http://www.visionmagazine.com/archives/0905/Feature_Vandana.html
In our world of urban sprawl, it’s commonplace for corporate names and logos to be plastered on everything that meets the eye. But what happens when corporations seek ownership of the source of people’s livelihoods, thereby removing what has been an inherent right of nature and our place within it?
That’s what is happening with the global patenting of seed and the privatization of water. Nature’s rights are being usurped by big business. The biotech industry, in a thinly veiled campaign to increase farmer productivity and end world hunger through the genetic engineering of crops, is really perpetuating the problems they claim to solve by putting price tags on basic elements that have been free for generations, often leading to farmers not being able to feed their families.
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