You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life,… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination,… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war.… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its time we… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share
