Friday, April 8, 2011

Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity and Sustainable Living

This woman is inspiring <3. Vandana Shiva talks about the importance of restoring the food system to protect the integrity of culture, instill freedom, and resist theft by large corporations.

"Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can no longer carry the burden of groundwater mining, pesticide pollution, disappearance of species and destabilization of the climate. Farmers can no longer carry the burden of debt, which is inevitable in industrial farming with its high costs of production. It is incapable of producing safe, culturally appropriate, tasty, quality food. And it is incapable of producing enough food for all because it is wasteful of land, water and energy. Industrial agriculture uses ten times more energy than it produces. It is thus ten times less efficient." - Vandana Shiva

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