Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food

Food Shortages, GMOs, Soil Erosion & Contamination, Water Contaminaton & Loss — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor February 21, 2011

Vandana Shiva shares a lucid discussion on Monsanto’s inexplicable view of nature as the enemy of mankind, and their determination to sell us ‘liberation’ from it. Aside from being an impossible battle, it’s also a wholly misguided one, based on a self-interested, short-term-thinking profit mentality, rather than the much needed acceptance of, and cooperation with, biological realities we need to see instead.

Note: Watch with Firefox. As per comments below, some are having trouble viewing in Internet Explorer.

Part I

Part II

Part III

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• “We need a whole new agriculture,” Wilson says, one that replaces conventional crops like wheat. See: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/conversation-eo-wilson.html

  Comment by Øyvind Holmstad — February 21, 2011 @ 11:15 pm

• Free local seeds given to whoever wants to grow them and save the seeds? That is a reality.
  Check it here.
  http://www.permacultureglobal.com/projects/225-local-seed-networks

  In Vedic culture, annadana or the Gift of Seed, seeds and grains/cereals are given freely, not sold.
  Having said that Seed Savers favours community/household-based seed enterprises as a resistance and response to large scale Monsanto style seed monopolies.

  Comment by michel Fanton — February 22, 2011 @ 8:16 pm

• I can’t see these video clips (Parts I to III) on my screen. All that displays is a message “Whoops! Missing embed param: file”. Is this because I need special software to read them, or have they been deleted?

  Comment by JW — February 23, 2011 @ 11:50 pm

• Hi JW – they work fine for me.

  Comment by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor — February 23, 2011 @ 11:53 pm

• Hi, I also can’t see the clips.

  “I can’t see these video clips (Parts I to III) on my screen. All that displays is a message “Whoops! Missing embed param: file”. Is this because I need special software to read them, or have they been deleted?”

  Salu2

  Comment by Urvin Leest — February 24, 2011 @ 1:48 am

• Hmm.. I switched to Internet Explorer and note the same issue. After a quick google, I see this error showing up a lot in the search results.

  At this point I can only suggest viewing with Firefox, as it works fine with that browser.

  Comment by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor — February 24, 2011 @ 2:20 am

• No problems viewing on either Firefox or Google Chrome.

  Comment by Darren Rose — February 28, 2011 @ 5:26 pm

• For those that not have Firefox you can see it from my new blog, as I’ve set up these series using You Tube: http://permaliv.blogspot.com/2011/03/vandana-shiva-matens-framtid.html

  Comment by Øyvind Holmstad — March 14, 2011 @ 10:20 pm

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