We Can Do This Podcast: Healing Through Gardening with Dr. Vandana Shiva
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024
- Dr. Vandana Shiva & Farmer Rishi discuss healing through gardening, why our connection to soil and plants just may be the most important connection there is. Stay connected at kisstheground.... | Join our newsletter at bit.ly/ktgnews...
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Thank you Dr for sharing...I just. Love listening to you..
"You are not doing the earth a favor, The earth is doing you a favor when you garden, saying Welcome Back child" - Vandana Shiva
I THINK IT IS A BIT OF BOTH, ACTUALLY
#LOVE #LOVE #LOVE
@@jamieeast4974 Honestly human contribution does nothing to ecosystems, humans only destroy. Even beekeeping is not helping, it robs of nectar for many other wild bees.
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I’ve just started my own organic vegetable garden, thanks to Covid and the rest of it. I have no idea what I’m doing 😂 but I plan on learning.
I absolutely adore this lady. Full of knowledge common sense and wisdom. I was brought up on a vegetable garden for 7 years. My father was a brilliant gardener. We grew mainly tomatoes fir local market and I are lots and lots of them. Tomatoes can only be hand picked. I was the little 8 year old who helped my mother sort the tomatoes and pack into wooden boxes. So proud of my father. It was backbreaking work but my father's legacy of teaching me to grow vegetables was a privilege and an honour.
I could listen to Dr Vandana Shiva for hours. And she is so right with a passion about growing our food in a sustainable manner. There isn't much I disagree at all. Hope we have more people like Dr Vandana Shiva. I am doing my best to grow my own food no matter how small. God bless.
I just found this video but Dr. Vandana Shiva has been my hero for over a decade. I left the big city for a backyard and have been growing some of my food. Discovered just how good real food tastes!
....mmmm.... REALfood.... mmmm
A pleasant opportunity to meet you Farmer Rishi, and hear from Vandana Shiva. Thank you for being here to form community. I will be seeking more from you. May God bless your efforts.
So inspiring and so life-affirming. It's not a speech, this is a song
वंदना शिवा क्या बात है।हमारे देश को ऐसी 100 वन्दना शिवा की सख्त जरूरत है।हिम्मत की औरत है।बीजों की मां है।ज़्यादा से ज्यादा लोगों तक उनकी बात पहुंच नी चाहिए।
I just love her.
May Your podcast be a seed for the world to start planting, gardening is the real healing!
She speaks to my soul! What a wonderful human❤
You guys are angels.I love you both and thank you for all you are and give to humanity.God smiles on you.🙏💛
Vandana Shiva has been a force in my mind and soul for well over a decade by now. Thank you for hosting this wonderful woman and force of nature!!! Vandana has so much wisdom I have previously said she is more important than "Royalty"!!
This is still true and her wisdom is more important than ever. There is so much nefarious collusion in this world these days her messages are even more important and relevant. Thanks Kiss The Ground for hosting 💚🌱✌🏼❤🐝🥰
Grow On fellow humans... its more important than ever! 💟✨🐝
this is what the feminine is all about - looking at things in a holistic manner
A Voice in the Wilderness but a very powerful voice. Thank you Madam for the human race needs not arms and bombs but food, water and their own human dignity to exist and Co- exist. I pray that your voice will be heard Loud and Clear.
You truly speak for Planet Earth and the people who live and love who need restoration and regeneration in every aspect of life. A Voice which has strived to give A Voice to the Voiceless. May God Bless you and Keep you and May His Face Shine Upon you and give you and your people That Peace we are all hungering for.
May it be so!
Vandana Shiva, I heard your other talks, in short we need more of you on Earth. You are a blessed mother.
The garden is the place i live best, and connect to the seasons, the sun, soil, water, life cycles and all creatures who find refuge there
Beautiful!
Such wisdom and poetry! Thank you so much for sharing!
I am a hard core fan of Dr. Vandana Shiva . She resonates all my beliefs in life, always awed by her deep knowledge and grounded talks. Respect from the heart.
Very very beautiful 😍 n extremely correct narration. We should follow her advice n knowledge.I salute her she is great.visionary.🙏🙏🙏.We should honour her n the people like her.TShe should replicate herself.🙏❤️
I wanna Kiss The Ground Vandana Shiva walks on....
she is absolutely precious.
May The Creator Keep her safe.
I love this wisdom ❤️ Thank you 👋 Here in Sweden many people took to gardening.
This is an excellent video. Dr. Shiva is Fantastic but so is Farmer Rishi!
VANDANA JI ...YES we must change our selves and you are an inspiration of change. Rishi ji and Vandana ji thank you. I heard saw this video 5 times. Bright and strong future to both. नमन Alok...alokulfat@gmail.com
agreed with Dr. Vandana, After this corona episode, refugee farmers will continue their traditional farming sensibly in their homeland. Me, who was in transitional mode to become A FARMER from a Corporate world, now has started farming. All the best.
YASHPAL ARYA Wonderful! Congratulations! I wish I was in such a position! Very happy for you & all those you will feed! 🙏🏼🌻☀️
What a brilliant idea Yashpal Arya. Congratulations!
If India had embraced the science of Covid prevention there would be 4 million more surviving Indian farmers today.
I will definitely try to grow a new thinking that comes from gardens.
Thank you for the interview! I just discovered Dr. V Shiva and she is so inspiring and powerful and passionate and loving. 💜
I love gardening, I love to dig in dirt, plant seeds and watch them grow. I am 68 in a month and every time I see little plants come up it still makes me so happy. I have been gardening since I was a child with my mother, my grandfather and my uncle who influenced me to enjoy the Mother earth. Seeds are precious to me. I will save my own seeds now, I buy local organic seeds, but saving my own seeds is a much better idea. i don't know why i didn't think of it myself. Thank you for sharing. I believe in eating good food, taking care of Mother earth, zero waste, being at peace with the Creator and being thankful for being. I am really enjoying the new interest in gardening that this pandemic has brought out in people. I think people will be kinder to each other, because gardening has a way of making you calm and connected to the earth. Everyone needs that...
Me too, I'm 69...gardening everyday keeps me positive, now my family is bringing up the next generation.
I loved reading your experiences when gardening, enjoing your oneness with Nature...Kindred Spirits 💚🌈
This is what the world needs, now more than ever. Well communicated beautiful people.
This is what the world needs, now more than ever. Well communication with beautiful person like you.
Of all the inequities in this world, she is a positive force that balances life. Gardening is addictive once you start even if you know little, but you learn fast as it's encoded in our genes to take care of the earth. It's the most natural and beautiful act, it's how we give back a modicum to the planet that gives us so much more. It's a spiritual connection with the Earth, & gardening amplifies it. She is an amazing 'seed' and I am grateful that the world will be a better place because of people like her. Interesting podcast, thank you.
I’ve heard about her through Baker Seeds. I googled and found her teachings most relevant, wise and most practical . Anyone, not only gardeners, can benefit from the practical applications she suggests. And such intelligence and wisdom. She’s amazing!
love your shows 🙂
So happy I found this, my little garden is gonna grow and share the info
I enjoy and heart hearing any of Dr. Shiva's discussions - her discussions present facts and knowledge that needs to be heard worldwide. A very deep heart felt 'Thank you' to Dr. Shiva for all that you do!
The #GREAT_FIGHTE #Vandana_Shiva #grande_combattante for #Nature and its #Creatures #BELOVED_BEINGS in #Harmony #LOVE
I've just recently discovered Vandana ji n she has become my hero in a world wer most countries are following unhealthy lifestyles promoted largely by corrupt government n organizations like Monsanto, pharmaceutical companies drugging common people thru their harmful products for profits... including Bill Gates agenda who shld be in a mental center if not jail !
PsPs- since long I've begun trying to grow small things like ginger, haldi, tulsi, in pots bec don't have a garden but some day hope to open a farm like u guys doing n including our farmers ..I dream of that.. thanks for inspiring 🙏🌸🌱
I just recently discovered Vandana myself - she is amazing!
DEEP thanks, Farmer Rishi, for bringing the scintillating brilliance of Dr. Shiva to us! So very inspiring.
Thank you! Just the part on physical distancing, NOT social distancing is something I've been saying, and something no one else has picked up on. A sane and intelligent woman. I honestly believe she is the voice of the Earth. I'm so excited to see this transformation from cynicism and greed, to one of cooperation and love. I believe that all of the horrors and suffering played the part of waking us. Nothing was a waste, even though it was horrible. Good comes from all.
Every morning see dawn as you start work in your garden..hate to miss a day
Amazing:) Thankyou
The Only Reason I Am Here Is Because "SHE IS SWITCHED ON,
Plus Lots Of Energy !"
Yhis is a great site 😊
How inspiring indeed! Motivational really!
So great!This is one of my favorite discussions with this phenomenal woman 🌱
طلعت مع ٥
Dr. Vandana! Thank you for another brilliant speech! Doubtless indeed, you are a most wise and extraordinary human being. What you teach us all, will prove to humanity, if we listen and have the will and courage to act upon it, to be the only alternative we have, if we hope & expect to continue to see the light of the sun in the near future! 🌱🌞🤗
She is speaking truth! 👍🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻❤️
Inspirational!
I salute you miss Vandana Shiva my Idol. Thank you for sharing us!
I think everything is called wild that does not fit into the artificially created system, that includes people.
Born to be wild.
In nature everything works together.
Namaste.
... and there is no waste in nature ☺
We stand with you Vandana
Very inspiring, as this lady and amazing scientist always is.
Gratitude ❤️ it was enlightening to hear that quantum mechanics led to the same basic understanding of connectivity , as ecology and gardening can . Gives us hope , that we can evolve together as one species , among many , in harmony with our planet .
GOD BLESS YOU! YOU ARE A WONDERFUL HERO!!! 🙏🏼❤️🌈
Fantastic!
Thankyou both for your wisdom, clarity and passion...a discussion which was infinitely practical as well as insightful and visionary. Re-wiring our thinking from a linear perspective to a cyclical one, understanding that it is the nature of life to regenerate.
Thank you for fighting, Dr. Vandana Shiva. May Elohim protect you.🙏🏽
Yes, I love gardening. I missed the Philippines, we used to grow all kinds of vegetables and other kind of foods. We were very healthy and never have vaccines or seen a doctors. So sad that these evil deceived us all, it’s time for all the normal human to wake up. We will overcome these wickedness, and God YAH; will not allow these dark forces to take over his amazing creation. Elohim will get rid of these parasites for good. YAHUAH’s people will be at peace. YAHUAH Bless.
Brilliant.
What a wise woman. She is my hero.
I just finished watching a Myles Power video. Good jorb RUclips! The algorithms is prefect!
Wonderful..so much to learn 👏👏
Wd love to learn her way of gardening
Thanks Rishi
Thanks Vandana ji
Thanks from Bermuda. Enjoyed this lecture.
Revolution in the streets.
Evolution in the garden.
I'll be in the garden.
Thank you both so much. 💞
Anybody out there reading these comments please take note because what this wonderful lady is trying to get the world to do is grow your own food individually, like Great Britain and other countries did during the Second World War we had a land army and they were women who kept the men at war and people at home fed by farming the land as a huge garden and it really worked and it made a difference and we need to go back there and start doing this and we are all responsible and we can all do this and many people will feel better in themselves if they go out and start doing this please you know it’s easy to grow potatoes and herbs and things, and the advice it’s given here how to save seeds Is the best in the world because it’s been done from the heart not from greed and wanton destruction because there are corporations that are doing that and individuals who have more money than sense and think that they are entitled to the seeds that have always been free on this planet because Gaia never charged anybody for seeds, our planet just provided them and the water and the soil are both at risk at the moment by big corporations who are trying to buy all the land in the water up we need to realise that the pandemic was showing us a lot of problems that need sorting out and these are two immediate things that we can start putting right in our own backyards, and our countryside please follow the steps that you’re given here and it will bring you a lot of pleasure and save the planet at the same time and when they knock on about climate change you know you really are doing your bit especially if we remember to dispose of all rubbish properly at the same time and that is down to common sense an independent individual people treating this space as they put their body, with great care tender loving care because they know if they don’t they’re gonna have problems, we can all do our bit let’s start here today and pass this wonderful message on to everybody we can and add to the convoys visit to Canada to bring peace and harmony to the world this is another way that we can do that and support ourselves and the planet.
This lady is not about the money she’s about actually making sure every child on this planet is fed , and it’s about us and how we think of each other are family or friends or neighbours are countries or cultures which they’ve been trying to destroy in all of us by manipulation and using TV programmes 24/7 to manipulate people and send subliminal messages on what you need to have on a daily basis and making you believe that you really need this stuff but nine times out of 10 you don’t need all the things that they showing you, what you do need is a warm loving home with plenty to eat and drink and keep your family safe and happy because they’re warm the dry and their belly’s are full .
Anything after that is a bonus I think about it really seriously think what you need first in your home and at the end of the day especially when you have not just yourself to look after sending lots of love out there and hope and faith in spirit and not just religious things they are every part of what we do every day if we didn’t believe in ourselves, and we didn’t believe in individuals and the trees will replenish themselves and apple trees fruit trees of all kinds, before Man Knew how to garden the plants in the trees were doing that job anyway and we have billionaires that want to own that as well as everything else we never have enough, I don’t want to make this political but I do want you to see what’s at stake because there is a situation here and it’s not just climate change as they will have you believe it’s manipulation and greed and we have an opportunity right now to make amazing difference each and everyone of you if you don’t think you’re good at anything I bet you I can find something that is good about every individual in this planet and I know you can too so let’s get started and start having loving gardens where it’s not only beautiful but it’s abstaining feeds your family and your friends it’s really a must is very important please get this message out there and even if you think you’ve got no way to go anything vertical gardens there’s window boxes there’s amazing things out there that you can do to help and help yourself more than anything is help each and everyone of you out there to make your life with you I having a belly full of food warm place to sleep and a roof over your head and an amazing planet that needs our love as well as each other and it doesn’t matter what culture , nationality race that you are we all belong to each other because under the skin everyone the same and they’ve been trying to tell you that we’re not using racism and learn behaviour yes there is a thing called learnt behaviour that does a lot of damage out there and manipulation by playing with words to convince you that we are in a very bad situation we are in a situation that they are manipulating you with, but if we respect each other in everything that we have we can take back that power and our responsibility for each other and for ourselves and start showing the tender loving care that’s needed on this planet because she is amazing and so are you and that’s what they’re not telling you they are telling you all kinds of crap you to stay and be asleep to the television for 20:47 hours a day, not only that they are making cyber dummies of your children manipulating them on these games and making you feel that the television is the new babysitter, nobody can babysit better than a parent you need to know that and they’ve been using the television programmes on smart phones tablets you name it computers now it doesn’t matter where you go there’s a camera or a listening device and they’re virtually saying that we’ve got you because we can babysit your babies and your little ones because we can keep them entertained 24 seven and I don’t know about you but I don’t want my children to grow up that way where they don’t have a question they don’t know what it’s like to go for a walk to go out and play and to enjoy where they get their food from and for them to pick apples and pears strawberries peas carrots and not just see them in the shop we can make a change and we have that moment now please help spread this word and look after the soil and the seeds and the water and it will look after us sending you lots of love and remember believing and having faith is trusting yourself and believing in yourself just as you would’ve God if you believe in a God or a deity that speaks to you because you believe that they are good and they will help you in times of struggle please think about this we have a lot to give each other and let’s start here and get the videos out there that mean a lot at this moment in time because it’s doctor here she is amazing and she’s not doing it for money or anything she’s doing it because it needs to be done for each and everyone of us and our children and this beautiful planet let’s show them what TLC really means and that we’ve got each other’s back and it doesn’t matter where you come from because I believe every man woman and child on this planet wants a better planet a better world well we can start here and make a difference just like the truckers are trying to win Canada and the protests all over the world and those that agitate in those protests to harm other You need to be careful of them because they might belong to that minority who is not interested in your welfare or our welfare, stay well be happy spread the love and do it through food like we normally do at home when we give someone a nice dinner and a warm dry and safe namaste🌏😇😇😇🤝🤝🤝🤝🌏🙏🏻🌏👊🏻✊🏻💞💞🌷👇🏿👆✋🏻🤟🏽🖖🏿🤚🏻👋🏼🖐🌈💫🤝🤝🤝🤝🌏🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🌻🌷🌞
Great 👍🏼🌿🌱
what a hopeful and fierce conversation. thank you !!!!
Gratitude to you both 🌍🖤🌻
I am so happy to hear such positive views based on clear thinking.
Nature always bounces back, so it is inspiring to hear problem solvers so dynamic.
#SaveSoil #ConsciousPlanet #LetsMakeItHappen
❤Thank you, both! ❤
🙏🤓I am grateful for your work
#LOVE #LEADER_SUPREME_NATURE #grande_combattante #GREAT_FIGHTER FOR #US #ALL #VANDANA_SHIVA
Nature bounces back🍃🌦️
I received a gift voucher for my birthday, now 71✨, to buy one books ..seeds, vegetation earth our GREAT shelter,a food garden, rock pools, mountain springs, water is life, life's well-spring ..rivers of life! To BEING WELL. 🙏🏝️🎉💖
I have utiliged some of my lock down period of covid-19 to take care of my home garden with concept of return back . Few centuties back every village in India used to have common bio- diverse area. The residents of that community were taking care of that by sustainable methods. Like collecting only fodder, fruits, berries, herbs and leaves. Leaves for composting in thier fields. During thec period of colonisation and after that importance of common grooves not realised and turned that patch of land also in to fields. The modern agriculture taught us only take and use synthetics inputs for plant growing and protection. Thus leading to fake food
that was beautiful :)
I LOVE this woman...she has a connection with the Lord Jesus Christ (even if she doesn't realize it-lol)....
Am glad i made it here.
Thankyou
#LOVE #LOVE #LOVE #GARDEN_IS_SAVIOR it will rescue, save and make the #WORLD survives #LOVE #ETERNAL_NATURE
Such a Beautiful lady 💐God Bless you Both, many thanks. 🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️🗑💉😷
Jesus said " Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God." ...Luke 8:11.... The Lord Jesus created food and fed people...He was the Master and He will help us all... I believe Him and His Words
He who fed the multitude will feed his people. That is why he has sent us a woman - true to roots to identify the real reason for global hunger. She says so readily that the wars are made out to based on religion - but it is for their survival. She is ready to take on the corporations of the world and wage a lone woman war. Let us stand by her and show the world that we are seekers of the light, truth and justice!
I love how she stated that .. THE EARTH IS DOING YOU THE FAVOR!
We humans are part of this world and should act as one. Imagine if every body part wanted to be independent from each other? The brain says, "I am the most important part around here." Then your stomach says, "NO! I AM!" Then the kidneys, the skin, the hair, nails, etc... you would die instantly on the spot over this idea of severe independence mentality. You're not fully independent, regardless what Political Sciences had taught you. You are dependent of someone. You are dependent of the plants to give you consumable food, water and air to breath. How are you independent? There is such a misconception on the idea of freedom and independence. That is what ultimately killing this planet... the arrogant illusion that you, I and us as a species think we are separate, thus independent from ourselves, nature and the world as a whole.We are going to be the ONLY species on this planet who went extinct due to sheer stupidity of arrogant narcissistic illusion of "liberty", "freedom", and "independent." I am glad Dr.Shiva has talked about this in her own way to that the average person can understand. Thank you Dr.Shiva, may you have many more years of fighting against sheer stupidity and arrogance. 🥰😍😘💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
May I please join the regenerative video class?
I have recently started listening to Dr Vandana Shiva.
If we have few more people like her this world will be a different planet.
She is Incredibly organic - just Love listening to her and learn😍❤🙏
She is woow
So beautiful..is there any way to contact her to learn how to do her way of gardening
The role of grazing is even more destructive than chemical farming .It turns land into deserd .Imagine how it was before modern fencing...how would you garden at all?
namaste
I wish i could buy land next to Vandana
I also have a question... the west is considering animal farming as a "regenerative" form of agriculture? is this correct in principle? we have regenerative -organic farming methods of cattle and pork and poultry here in America... how do you all feel about this practice as Hindi/vegetarians ?
Birth and death are two sides of life.
So what's the medicine for "that disease" (mentioned @ 29:55), which tends to be at their very NATURES? How can their energies and needs be better/appropriately transformed? And would even ATTEMPTING to solve this problem be akin to.. I dunno, rechannelizing a carnivorus animal to become all peaceful and vegetarian?
Also, @ 35 minutes, regarding etymology of "millets" - ?as from MILLions (re seed ratio)?.. hmm, i would imagine it came from the answer to WHAT TO DO with that grain that is not really edible for us raw... one solution, cook it after you powder it (or "mill it"), you know? and for the gene-yes', of course, the reciprocal seed ratio, and the name would be.....
What about all the chemicals they spray in our Sky’s? How can you grow healthy plants 🌱 if the soil is contaminated 🤷♀️ Almighty Father please hear our prayers 🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Wild is just self-seeding & establishment...
What about the biosludge that is polluting our soil here in California and it’s done legally how do we stop this and shut down the epa and the fertilizers that carry it?
How much will the course cost?
We are one human race homo sapiens the wise one! the difference in skin tone, is due to concentration of melanin from the environment we originate in the world and is due to the need to protect us from strong sunlight. We need the sunlight for vitamin D3 a hormone which gives us healthy body and brain function.
Real food is essential and that means grass fed animal farming and diversity, not sugar, grains, processed foods, without additives of antibiotics, glyphosate, big pharma pesticides, poisons, fertilisers. Humans are the gardeners of the world. Work with nature, not against it!
Let us follow her.
Only if you like frauds who harm farmers trying to get better seed.
@@popeyegordon What better seed ?seeds and rice crops that literally annihilated our native breeds.we don't need your seeds keep it to yourself .we don't want to live in a system where our health is being crushed while previous generation were living more years here our life span is being reduced chronic illness have become rampart.we had to struggle so much to bring back all native seeds back and thankfully they are back.the native rice is delicious and also very nutritious.No matter how hard you try native seeds are coming back for good and educated farmers in my area are using natural multi cropping patterns and are profiting without any input of capital a self sustaining life style is in the process of creation
@@anonkasper7937 This is a lie. No rice varieties have been 'annihilated'. Nobody forces you to plant any particular seed. All seed varieties are preserved globally in seed banks and vaults and by hobby farmers. GMO varieties only add to your choices but Shiva tries to block access to superior seed from farmers. NOBODY is trying to eliminate native seed!!!!! You are free to continue barely getting by with stone age practices and hunger but smart farmers know they can do better.
Life spans are definitely UP and we have cures never available before. There is a gross reduction in illnesses like polio that ravaged India but over all you are behind the world due to poor government policies and anti-science activists like Shiva.
@@anonkasper7937 More than half of all GMO seeds being used today (by variety, not tonnage) are not for or from US agribusiness. They are for specific applications in many different parts of the world where climate change is causing additional challenges like drought, floods, extreme temperatures, pests or salty soils. Most of them are not patented. Most of them are given away free to struggling farmers by NGOs and govt seed programs: ruclips.net/video/nEHEt56w0PU/видео.html Indian farmers seriously envy the pesticide free Bt eggplant (bringal) Bangladesh developed.
@@anonkasper7937 About the anti-biotech activist Vandana Shiva: Shiva has attracted intense criticism from the scientific community for perpetuating long-debunked myths about agriculture, biotechnology and food safety.
"Shiva is scheduled to speak in late January at Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Cruz on “equitable and sustainable” farming methods. Her positions on a variety of issues have irked and at times outraged scientists who consider her a disseminator of misinformation who profits at the rate of $40,000 a lecture (or more) to spread propaganda critical of mainstream views of biotechnology. Raised in prosperity, this Indian Brahmin was formally trained as a philosopher, embracing and promoting a form of Quantum Theory that is now widely dismissed. She often falsely claims that she is a trained physicist, and those false ‘scientific’ credentials are often echoed by her supporters. The GLP has carried numerous articles about her history of misstatements and fabrications (here, here, here). She was the subject of a scathing critique, “Seeds of Doubt,” by Michael Specter of The New Yorker, which documented her history of misleading claims and what Specter maintained often verged on anti-science gibberish.
For more than three decades, she has relentlessly campaigned against globalization, focusing on food and agriculture socio-economic issues and an opposition to GMOs, free trade and intellectual property rights. She alternately promotes land redistribution, indigenous and peasant farmers’ rights, organic-only food production and ayurvedic health practices over conventional medicines, all of which she characterizes as an “earth democracy” movement necessary to restore “harmony,” people and nature.
Shiva receives financial backing from high-profile activist groups such as the Center for Food Safety, which shares offices with her in Washington. Among her most controversial talking points is her false claim that there was no hunger in India prior to the Green Revolution. The truth is almost 180 degrees the opposite, as the Green Revolution, marked in part by the introduction of synthetic chemical fertilizers and pesticides enable massive increases in food production. A recent review of the evidence shows, “the production of cereal crops tripled during this period, with only a 30% increase in land area cultivated.” Shiva also blames the Green Revolution for increasing poverty, indebtedness and despair among farmers. Her notorious allegation that the introduction of insect-resistant GMO crops in India led many farmers to commit suicide has been evaluated and dismissed as inaccurate. Shiva is also a fierce opponent of so-called Golden Rice, a crop engineered to combat vitamin A deficiency in developing countries.
In response to the scheduling of her two talks at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz, 39 scientists from around the world co-authored an open letter to both universities protesting the invitations. The signatories told the GLP that their aim is to alert the events’ organizers, participants and attendees to the numerous falsehoods in Shiva’s philosophy. The letter, reproduced below in full, blasts Shiva for her “use of anti-scientific rhetoric to support unethical positions.” Neither university has scheduled a scientist to present the evidence-based case for crop biotechnology." geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/01/14/39-biotech-experts-open-letter-protests-anti-gmo-activist-vandana-shivas-anti-science-talks-at-stanford-and-uc-santa-cruz/
I subscribe. I kiss the ground 😂