Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people of this world. These 80 percent live on the biodiversity and the knowledge they have evolved as part of a rich collective heritage involving the use of seeds for growing crops and medicinal plants for healing.

You 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.

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.