or biopiracy vrs. people
there are 6 point something billion human hearts beating. (what a beautiful sound!)
basic needs are food water and shelter . in the more abstract context of employment, environment and energy.
50% of the 6 are farmers.. it is an interesting statistic.. it was a greater percentage in the past. at least since the ‘Neolithic revolution’ when humans put away the clubs and spears and got out the hoes and spades the oxen and the plow.. rotary hoe and tractor if you’re lucky. a sickle. it was a glorious revolution .. . incidentally, Hercules used a sickle to slay the hydra. (2nd labour)
farming involves an earth consciousness.. a respect for the creative process of life.
according to vandana shiva,*, small farms are the answer. she is formidable. be warned all you minions of biopiracy and corporate globalism.. your days are numbered.
she is about an ecologically sustainable paradigm. the small farm (in contrast to corporate monoculture) is the solution to climate change, employment and nutrition. none of my friends would have the nerve to disagree with her. not a chance. heheheh.
Indian farmers in particular have been the victim of global agriculture in a way reminiscent of the (more or less brutal) expropriation of the indigenous people of my native country, Australia, over the past 200 years.
what angers people like shiva is the lie that industrial agriculture is more productive…
corporate agriculture and genetic engineering is killing people. it is driven by the ownership (greed) mentality peddled by the likes of the bloody Chicago school of ‘economics’ for the past however many years.
man doesn’t own the earth. (the thought is) ridiculous!!!!!
this cat believes that food is about a) nourishment b) nourishment and c) nourishment.
obesity and toxic buildup in the body (or environment) is a form of karmic insanity and a poison in the blood. (careful or you will be a victim of it.)
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the good news is that pseudo-liberalism is on the way out--- sinking in a black hole of bankruptcy and debt ---taking down its faceless creditors with it as well (with a bit of luck). its not just one or two heads off the hydra: it’s being pounded by the law and poisoned by its own toxic assets and lies.
(chief seattle.)
* no problem at all gracing the blog with this one..
Earth Democracy. vandana shiva: zed books London 2006
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