Monsanto and Society
So far we have seen how Monsanto has impacted nature and ecological systems. However, one can observe a similar imposition on society and those involved in cultivating GM crops. There has been significant social movement in India over the last decade, with India’s farmers and peasants leading protests around the country aimed towards the multinational companies, like Monsanto, who with the Government, force upon Indian peasants “government funded commercial and technological agriculture with statist conceptions of national development” (Roy & Borowiak 2003, p57). Shiva interprets industrialism as “the birth place of resource exploitation” and that Monsanto uses modern science as provision for ethical and cognitive license …show more content…
It can be analogised as a ‘quilt’ (Warren 2000), in the sense that each ‘patch’ of ecofeminism is unique but agrees on the condition necessary to belong to ‘the quilt’. The common philosophy that ecofeminists commune on is that there are connections between the ‘isms’ of domination, especially between women and nature and that “such domination is neither justified nor inevitable” (ibid, p43). Ecofeminism analyses this unjustified domination and human involvement while drawing on other philosophical movements such as feminism, ecology and environmentalism. Sturgeon (1997) articulates that the ideologies observed that permit injustices of certain human groups are “related to the ideologies that sanction the exploitation and degradation of the environment” (p23). These dysfunctional ideals can be located within the social system of patriarchy. Warren (1993) visualises this system and has defined patriarchy in a model where the framework leads to impaired thinking which in turn promotes dysfunctional behaviours and unmanageability (See notes). She ascertains that it is a circle that when “unchecked and unchallenged, continues uninterrupted” (Warren 2000, p211). She characterises this patriarchal conceptual framework by having “value hierarchal thinking, value dualisms, power over conceptions, and relationships of power, conceptions of privilege
So far we have seen how Monsanto has impacted nature and ecological systems. However, one can observe a similar imposition on society and those involved in cultivating GM crops. There has been significant social movement in India over the last decade, with India’s farmers and peasants leading protests around the country aimed towards the multinational companies, like Monsanto, who with the Government, force upon Indian peasants “government funded commercial and technological agriculture with statist conceptions of national development” (Roy & Borowiak 2003, p57). Shiva interprets industrialism as “the birth place of resource exploitation” and that Monsanto uses modern science as provision for ethical and cognitive license …show more content…
It can be analogised as a ‘quilt’ (Warren 2000), in the sense that each ‘patch’ of ecofeminism is unique but agrees on the condition necessary to belong to ‘the quilt’. The common philosophy that ecofeminists commune on is that there are connections between the ‘isms’ of domination, especially between women and nature and that “such domination is neither justified nor inevitable” (ibid, p43). Ecofeminism analyses this unjustified domination and human involvement while drawing on other philosophical movements such as feminism, ecology and environmentalism. Sturgeon (1997) articulates that the ideologies observed that permit injustices of certain human groups are “related to the ideologies that sanction the exploitation and degradation of the environment” (p23). These dysfunctional ideals can be located within the social system of patriarchy. Warren (1993) visualises this system and has defined patriarchy in a model where the framework leads to impaired thinking which in turn promotes dysfunctional behaviours and unmanageability (See notes). She ascertains that it is a circle that when “unchecked and unchallenged, continues uninterrupted” (Warren 2000, p211). She characterises this patriarchal conceptual framework by having “value hierarchal thinking, value dualisms, power over conceptions, and relationships of power, conceptions of privilege