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VANDANA SHIVA ON FIGHTING BIO-IMPERIALISM (MF GALAXY 038)

Scientist Eco-Warrior on Stopping Monsanto from Owning Life

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmentalist and physicist who earned her Ph.D. on “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” at the University of Western Ontario. She’s also a featured interviewee in the acclaimed Canadian documentary The Corporation and the author of over three hundred papers and dozens of books.

She founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, which according to her website vshiva.net, “works on biodiversity conservation and protecting people's rights from threats to their livelihoods and environment.” She also founded Navdanya, an Indian movement to protect bio-diversity and life-form integrity, especially for native seeds.

Way back in 2004, Shiva spoke in Edmonton for the Revolutionary Speakers Series curated by the University of Alberta Students Union. We met outside an organic chain store in Edmonton’s historic Old Strathcona district to discuss—what else—saving the planet. She explained many things, including:

Why people living under corporate agriculture are “bio-serfs” 

How the fight for traditional farming is a fight for human rights

The meaning of "planet rights"

The agribusiness worst case scenario that’s already happening, and 

How rich countries use agribusiness subsidies to destroy the agricultural viability of developing nations

Along the way, Shiva referenced Percy Schmeiser, the Saskatchewan farmer who battled agribusiness megacorp Monsanto all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada and lost.

We began by discussing the how differences between North American and European cultures affect the relationship between politics and science.

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Alex Jones Show: Commercial Free - Thursday (5-14-15) Jeffrey M. Smith & Percy Schmeiser

On the Thursday, May 14 transmission of the Alex Jones Show, alarming footage out of Arizona last month shows US Marines conducting a mock internment camp complete with role players asking for food and water. And will “social justice warriors” back off the rhetoric after a black officer is charged with Freddie Gray’s death? On today’s show, the author of the book Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, Jeffrey M. Smith, joins the show to break down advances against the chemical conglomerate Monsanto. Also, farmer Percy Schmeiser joins the show to discuss the various victories in the organic food movement, including the USDA’s recent decision to create a “No GMO” label. We’ll also take your calls on today’s global broadcast.

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@TuttiSuPerTerra #TSPT2014 Percy Schmeiser è un agricoltore canadese diventato simbolo della battaglia contro gli #ogm e i monopoli dell’industria agrochimica, dopo che i suoi campi sono stati infestati da polline contenente geni transgenici. Il film di Sabato 10 David Versus Monsanto racconta la lunga battaglia legale tra Schmeiser e #Monsanto.

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First, with the introduction of GMOs always remember there is no such thing as containment. Once you introduce a life form, a life-giving form, into the environment there is no calling back. You cannot contain the wind. You cannot contain the seed movement through cross-pollination - birds, bees, and other animals. You cannot contain it and it will spread as it has on the Prairies.

Percy Schmeiser, from his 2003 speech in Vancouver. In 1998, biotech giant Monsanto sued Saskatchewan farmer Schmeiser because they found their patented strain of canola growing in a ditch on his property. Schmeiser has always contended that Monsanto seeds contaminated his property without his knowledge and Monsanto was never been able to prove otherwise. Still, the Canadian courts found Schmeiser guilty of patent infringement. His legal case is over, but the battle for farmers, for food, for life, has just begun.

Last night my wife, sister, and brother-in-law went to see SEEDS, a play documenting Schmeiser’s legal struggle. There was a full house for this engaging, and important performance. If you get a chance, go see it. SEEDS is showing in Vancouver, January 22 to 26, in Ottawa, March 26 to April 12. The French-language version, GRAIN(S), is showing in Quebec City April 15 to 26.

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David vs. Monsanto

David vs. Monsanto Directed by Bertram Verhaag

A few years back I watched the documentary Dirt! The Movie, and I remembered Vandana Shiva referencing a court case involving Percy Schmeiser and Monsanto. She gave a quick recount of how Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) canola seed mixed with Percy Schmeiser's non-GM canola seeds. As a result, Monsanto sued Schmeiser for patent infringement. I heard the story and didn't think much of it. I did not look further into the court case--about who won or who lost. Nor did I give much thought about GM foods vs. non-GM foods. The Monsanto vs. Schmeiser case has remained a topic of confusion for me, so I decided to watch David vs. Monsanto. What I learned was devastating. More after the jump!

“No one should control nature,” Percy Schmeiser says in the film's opening scene. “No one should control life. No one should have that right to put patents on nature and life. As long as my wife and I have life within us, we will always go down to fight for the rights of farmers, always to be able to use their seed from year to year. No one should take that right away from anyone.” Schmeiser makes these claims in front of a packed crowd drawing a round of applause. Percy and his wife Louise struggled for nearly a decade in court against Monsanto, finally losing an appeal in 2004. The story Vandana Shiva recounted in Dirt! wasn't just a myth; Percy Schmeiser grew his own canola seed crop for 40 years before Monsanto's GM canola seed cross-pollinated with his crop. Unbeknownst to Schmeiser (because both non-GM and GM canola plants look identical), he replanted the GM canola seeds. Monsanto took Schmeiser to court for planting their GM canola seed and for patent infringement. I would go into all the details of the case from the film, but a quick web search will give you multiple sources detailing the case of Schmeiser vs. Monsanto. Here are just three articles: Mercola, Vegsource, even Monsanto's own website.

I would like to draw attention how the film displays not only the Schmeisers' struggle, but other farmers struggle against Monsanto. Bertram Verhaag interviews multiple American farmers who've had a run-in with Monsanto, typically resulting in legal action. However, because these farmers struggle financially, they often settle outside of court and sign a non-disclosure agreement clause and contract to never sue Monsanto again. Outside of the legal action taken place, I was surprised at how easily a farmer's crop could be cross-pollinated. Several footage shows Percy Schmeiser giving lectures reinforcing the problems with how GM seeds may ruin a farmer's crop, be it from one seed that drifts onto their farm or another seed that commingles during transport. As Schmeiser points out, cross-pollination becomes a problem because the non-GM plant becomes a “terminator plant,” a plant whose germination process ceases to exist. Therefore, the plant's seeds cannot be used the following crop season; the farmer must annually rebuy seed from Monsanto. Percy Schmeiser no longer grows canola seed and has transitioned to growing wheat and oats. However, when Monsanto's canola plant was found on Schmeiser's field in 2008, he filed a lawsuit against Monsanto forcing the company to remove its plant or pay for cleanup fees. Schmeiser gained a “personal victory” when Monsanto settled outside of court agreeing to pay for cleanup fees.

David vs. Monsanto successfully portrays the struggle of the little man vs. large corporation, but the documentary only gives the perspective of the little man. The same concern of limited perspective I had for Farmageddon crops up in David vs. Monsanto. Footage recorded from Monsanto's perspective--spoken from Monsanto representatives and not the farmers--would reveal both sides of the story. Though, after perusing Monsanto's website, it's clear that Monsanto is very convincing in how they word things. I had to search outside of the film for varying perspectives on Monsanto. Yes, Monsanto has it's supporters, but Monsanto also has many enemies. With that said, it's heart warming to see Percy and Louis Schmeiser awarded The Right Livelihood Award for their struggles. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Bertram Verhaag's film and will definitely be on the lookout when Denkmal Film releases The Farmer and his Prince. In the meantime, I have Denkmal Film's other documentaries to place on my ever expanding documentary playlist.

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Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer, has been fighting Monsanto for years.  Click HERE to read more.