Vandana Shiva

GMOs: the silent killer A GMO, or genetically modified organism, is a plant, animal, or being that has been genetically altered in a laboratory. Moreover, a GMO can refer to any animal, crop, or organism that has been genetically engineered or modified. In the food industry, GMOs usually refer to produce and other consumer goods that have been genetically modified. Most Americans are not aware of the prevalence of GMOs in the food industry and the dangers that accompany them. In fact, according…

Women Healing Earth is written by Rosemary Radfrod Ruether. This book is a series of essays from different types of women with different cultures. Starting from Latino America, Asia, and Africa. These women are writing in a perspective of a female theologians in the developing world. The reading is grouped into three sections these sections go into depth with the traditional religion these women practice. Also indigenous women are brought up in a more wide- spread religion. Lastly the white…

Paarlberg brings in celebrity author Vandana Shiva to explain just what is going on. He states, “A 2002 meeting in Rome of five hundred prominent international NGOs, including Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, even blamed The Green Revolution for the rise in world hunger” (Paarlberg 613).…

Critical thinking, creating arguments and making claims were all new experiences for me, and after learning them, I believe my development as a writer, as well as a student, has grown to a more college level. For our first assignment regarding Vandana Shiva and Michael Specter’s views on the use of G.M.O.’s, we had…

Physicist Vandana Shiva said that a river is the life blood in an ecosystem. Our life source is our heart and very much like our heart, water gives us power. In the world of water politics, water is power, meant both literally and figuratively. In fact, water is the basis of many things currently. It is the source of our own nutritional benefit and without it we would perish. It is the substance granting life to many organisms of non-human descent. It is the reason for our rainy days and our…

nutrients they need through these crops alone. Those who have participated in organic farming have all seen an increase of weight(Bourne 155). Organic farming uses compost and the use of rotation to increase the quality of production for farmers. Vandana Shiva, an agroecologist, explains how “using compost instead of natural-gas-derived fertilizer increases organic matter in the soil, sequestering carbon and holding moisture” (Bourne 154). These factors are ways of combatting climate change.…

are decreasing biodiversity, it can have a wide range of effects on the environment. In fact, genetic engineering has been shown to require an increase in the use of pesticides, as well as result in the spread of “irreversible” genetic pollution (Shiva). Genetic Pollution refers to the spread of genetically engineered organisms to other, nonengineered organisms, which can happen through mating and cross-pollination. Most GMOs negatively affect other organisms because of this genetic pollution,…

primarily male ownership of the means and forces of production causes a male-biased accessibility and distribution of a society 's economic resources that systematically detriments women economically and exploits nature (Mles, 1999). Scholars Dr. Vandana Shiva and Karen Warren underline two key features of capitalist patriarchy; first it is upheld through value hierarchical thinking. We arrange society through hierarchy,…

side effects to animals like organ damage and even cancer, they can certainly affect humans in a similar way. Vandana Shiva, an Indian Scholar and environmental activist notes that one study even found that dairy cows who consumed genetically modified soybeans, which have been proven to disrupt hormones, produced a milk with a much higher fat level than cows that were fed organic soybeans (Shiva). Obviously, more studies should be done to…

Genetically modified organisms, also known as GMOs, describes organisms that have altered their genes through various methods of modifying DNA. These transgenic organisms are often thought to be unnatural because of the artificial process of transferring foreign genes into other organisms. GMOs can negatively impact multiple aspects of everyday life. This process can be harmful to the environment because of their excessive amount of herbicides required for these organisms and their contamination…