More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
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.
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.
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
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.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.
