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Book Release : The Heart is Noble |
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For more details on the book, please check http://www.theheartisnoble.com/ |
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Q&A: Dr. Vandana Shiva, social activist, on the importance of saving seeds |
With a PhD in the foundations of quantum theory, Dr. Vandana Shiva has led an unusual life for a physicist in the 21st century.
Thirty years ago, Dr. Shiva dedicated her life “to the seed.” She founded Navdanya, the movement for seed saving in India. And the movement has since gone global. Seed saving has gained agricultural and political importance as the international farming industry has shifted from annually harvesting seeds to purchasing irreproducible patented seeds from...
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Animals are seriously harmed by eating GM crops |
Embargoed until Wednesday 12 June 2013
A ground breaking new study [1] shows that pigs were harmed by the consumption of feed containing genetically modified (GM) crops.
The research results were striking and statistically significant. GM-fed females had on average a 25% heavier uterus than non-GM-fed females, a possible indicator of disease that requires further investigation.
Also the level of severe inflammation in stomachs was markedly higher in pigs fed on the GM diet. Male...
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Doon Valley Rises Against Coca Cola Organize a Rally to Say No to Coca-Cola |
More than 1,200 people took part in a Rally on tractor trolleys, jeeps, cars, buses and motorcycles from Daak Patthar Barrage on Yamuna river about 12 km away from the Charba village, in Doon Valley where Coca-Cola plans to set up its plant. Young and old, villagers and city dwellers became one in saying, “Coca-Cola is poison; it is wrecking havoc on our nation” , “In a country of milk and curd; Coke and Pepsi is absurd”, ”Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola; leave India, leave India”, and...
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Technologies are tools for doing or making things. They are a means to transform what nature has given into food, clothing, shelter, means of mobility, means of communication. Technology is a means to an end; it is not an end in itself.
But when we stop perceiving technology as a means mediating between nature and human needs and elevate it to an end in itself, we falsely give it the status of a religion. The Green Revolution bred seeds to respond to chemical fertilisers — they were...
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