Vandana Shiva Quotes

[http://www.onweb.org/archive/features/shiva/shiva.html An interview with Vandana Shiva]

[http://www.vshiva.net Vandana Shiva's website]

[http://www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=90 Vandana Shiva's ZMag homepage]

When you call somebody a fraud, that suggests the person knows she is lying. I don’t think Vandana Shiva necessarily knows that. But she is blinded by her ideology and her political beliefs. That is why she is so effective and so dangerous.

Shiva’s words are treated with earnest respect in liberal and environmental circles, where she is held in great esteem. If she insists that Monsanto and its GMO seeds have driven hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers to suicide—and she has said this frequently—then there must be something to it.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.