More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
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.
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.
The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
