When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, ‘it’s mine.’ But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we’re not liable.
It is often too late by the time the government reacts.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.
Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.
The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.
We’re still eating the leftovers of World War II.
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.
The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She’s the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
Squeezing 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 earth’s resources and living processes.
My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.
That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.
The myth of “free choice” begins with “free market” and “free trade”. When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel.
Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.
Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.