{"id":32116,"date":"2012-10-31T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T16:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32116"},"modified":"2012-10-31T21:00:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T04:00:56","slug":"vandana-shiva-on-prop-37-gmos-food-sovereignty-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/10\/31\/vandana-shiva-on-prop-37-gmos-food-sovereignty-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandana Shiva on Prop 37, GMOs, Food Sovereignty, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/home\/graphics\/vandana_shiva_interview.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>One of the world\u2019s most renowned scientists and environmental activists, Vandana Shiva, is speaking out on behalf of proposition 37. Long a thorn in the side of Monsanto, Dr. Shiva has taken on big bio-tech and agribusiness companies in her home country of India and works with farmers groups all over the world to protect their right to farm using their traditional methods and seeds.<\/p>\n<p>Trained as a physicist, Vandana Shiva is the founder of Navadanya, \u201ca movement which aims to protect nature and people\u2019s rights to knowledge, biodiversity, water and food,\u201d by creating community seed banks among other things. She just concluded a two week long global action called \u201cseed freedom.\u201d She has written nearly two dozen books, including Democratizing Biology: Reinventing Biology from a Feminist, Ecological and Third World Perspective, and Soil Not Oil. Her forthcoming book out next year is entitled Making Peace With the Earth: Beyond Land Wars And Food Wars. Vandana Shiva has won a number of awards including the Sydney Peace Prize and the Right Livlihood Award and was named by the Guardian newspaper as one of their Top 100 most inspiring women. <\/p>\n<p>Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with Dr. Shiva in the backyard of a private home in Santa Monica on October 30, 2012. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview below in 2 parts: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1dLvi0Yk3wQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RxER8c3tjA0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bipasha Shom recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s most renowned scientists and environmental activists, Vandana Shiva, is speaking out on behalf of proposition 37. Long a thorn in the side of Monsanto, Dr. Shiva has taken on big bio-tech and agribusiness companies in her home country of India and works with farmers groups all over the world to protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32141,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32116\/revisions\/32141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}