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GMOs are
based on ideology, not Science.
We don’t
need GMOs in our food and farming for food security
By Dr
Vandana Shiva
Vandana has her share of critics too. A recent issue of The New Yorker
magazine carried an article almost entirely devoted to her titled ‘Seeds of
Doubt’ by Michael Specter. Writing in defence of genetically modified crops,
Specter undermined and virtually challenged Shiva’s environmental concerns
about GMOs. The article drew instant disapproval from many scientists and
activists alike.
Responding to her critics, Vandana said that: “Quantum theory taught me the
four principles that have guided my work: everything is interconnected,
everything is potential, everything is indeterminate, and there is no
excluded middle. Every intellectual breakthrough I have made over the last
40 years has been to move from a mechanistic paradigm to an ecological
one..."
It is largely due to her efforts, that India has, so far, not permitted any
genetically modified food crop for human consumption, though Bt cotton is
grown widely.
Shiva founded Navdanya, an Indian women's movement, “to protect the
diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seeds.”
In this article Vandana Shiva shatters the myths created and disseminated
about genetically engineered organisms or GMOs.
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