In India, crossbreeding programs aimed at mimicking the milk yields of Western cows like the Jerseys and the Holsteins actually breed out the capacity of our animals to pull ploughs and pulley-cars. So, thanks to cross-breeding programs, we now have humpless cattle with no stamina.
Vandana ShivaYou cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.
Vandana ShivaWe share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
Vandana ShivaGlobalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
Vandana ShivaSqueezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earthโs resources and living processes.
Vandana ShivaMy father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.
Vandana Shiva