If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind.

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Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

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We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

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That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

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Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

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Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

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Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

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Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

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In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

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We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

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