Vandana Shiva on Seeds of Humanity

'In a video excerpt from this weekend’s Moyers & Company, scientist and philosopher Vandana Shiva explains how “everything begins with seed,” and addresses the perils of patenting them. Shiva also encourages each of us to ask “where am I complicit in the war against the Earth?”'

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Help Us Fight Monsanto and Protect Our Food and Farms

'This has been an incredible year for the Center for Food Safety, and our work protecting our farms, our food, and our environment from the potential hazards of genetically engineered (GMO) crops.  As you know, in April we battled Monsanto in the U.S. Supreme Court – and were victorious in maintaining the ban on the planting and sale of GMO alfalfa. CFS won another major lawsuit against USDA, Monsanto, and a number of other biotech companies this August, and as a result of our victory the planting and sale of GMO sugar beets is now also illegal.  

And just this month, CFS was again victorious in the courts, as a federal judge ordered that GMO sugar beets that were illegally planted be destroyed.  This was the first time ever that a court has ordered the destruction of a GMO crop.' 


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Revealed: how seed market is controlled by Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow & DuPont

 

Photo Credit: Skippy'sVegetable Garden

'Since the mid-1990s just five biotech giants - Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow and DuPont - have bought up more than 200 other companies between them to dominate our access to seeds.

Philip Howard from Michigan State university, who has produced a unique visual to illustrate this growing concentration of power in the hands of a few companies, says the takeover of the seed market has been 'dramatic' and that it is getting harder for farmers to find alternatives.

In the US for example, where 90 per cent of the soybeans grown are genetically-modified varieties, many conventional farmers have had difficulty obtaining non-genetically modified seeds to plant.'

 

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