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Vortrag von Vandana ShivaDie uralte Weisheit und «Heiligkeit» in der ursprünglichen Landwirtschaft beschäftigt Vandana Shiva seit langem. Wie können wir das Heilige in der Landwirtschaft, das heute noch in indigenen Gemeinschaften lebt, für unsere Zeit wiederentdecken? Kann es zur Grundlage einer neuen Landwirtschaft der Zukunft werden? Dieser Frage widmet sich der Abendvortrag von Vandana Shiva.
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50+ scientists challenge Boston College, Florida International for hosting philosopher Vandana Shiva, disseminator of science disinformation on vaccines and crop biotechnology Tuosta kritiikistä haluan erityisesti nostaa esiin tämän:
5. Shiva rejects technologies which help farmers (mostly women and children) to alleviate the painful, back-breaking labour of hand-weeding, which she glorified in a paper that was posted for years on her website.
Note that she removed it recently after universal criticism but it’s preserved here: “Indian women selectively do weeding by hand, hereby preserving our biodiversity.” Photo and caption at p. 21.
This is preposterous: as this recent peer-reviewed article (one of hundreds) documents, weeding releases greenhouse gases while no-till farming limits climate change disruptions. And her “biodiversity” reference is misleading: any act of weeding, by hand, machine or using herbicides is exactly aimed at eliminating detrimental plant biodiversity, which, in a field or garden, stifles crops. We must underline that herbicides have resulted in dramatic increases in yield per acre, and the toxicity of chemicals used in agriculture has been going down for 30 years.
