Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
Vandana ShivaEvery farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a corporation. Over-the-fence exchanges have started to be treated as crimes. Or, if you need a biological pest control, you can no longer use the need seed in your back yard. Instead you have to depend on the Grace Corporation or some other entity. That kind of dependency basically leads to increased poverty and increased ecological destruction.
Vandana ShivaIn traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
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