Vandana Shiva comes to biotech headquarters, UC Davis
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Vandana Shiva comes to UC Davis, academic headquarters of many biotech corporations.
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VANDANA SHIVA to speak on GLOBALIZATION, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, and SOCIAL JUSTICE
by Jonathan Woolley Wednesday, Apr. 19, 2006 at 10:45 AM
 jmwoolley@ucdavis.edu (530) 204 7619
Dr. Vandana Shiva is visiting from India to speak at UC Davis. Vandana is a world renown activist against globalization, and in support of biodiversity, ecological conservation, sustainable agriculture and womens rights. In 1993, Vandana Shiva received the Right to Livelihood Award (the Alternative Nobel Prize) "... for placing women and ecology at the heart of modern development discourse".
Tuesday, April 25, 6-8pm
194 Chemistry, UC Davis
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The California Student Sustainability Coalition's Education for Sustainable Living Program presents
Dr. Vandana Shiva
for an inspirational lecture on globalization, sustainable agriculture, and social justice
In 1993, Vandana Shiva received the Right Livelihood Award (the Alternative Nobel Prize) "... for placing women and ecology at the heart of modern development discourse". Dr. Shiva is a physicist, philosopher, ecofeminist, environmental activist and writer. She is the founder of Navdanya, a movement in India for biodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture, and social rights. Vandana Shiva is also Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, she is the author of hundreds of articles and many books including: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace. She is a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin and she addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, as well as the recent World Economic Forum in Melbourne , 2000.
UC Davis, 194 Chemistry
Tuesday, April 25th 6:10-8:00
Admission is FREE
For more information contact
Jonathan Woolley
Coordinator
Education for Sustainable Living Program
jmwoolley@ucdavis.edu
(530) 204 7619
UC Davis is biotech funded headquarters
prepare for a showdown
Am very happy that Vandana Shiva is coming to Davis. She may need to get ready for some vocal opposition, since UC Davis is deeply involved with biotech interests. UC Davis is financially and physically located in the heart of biotech country. Calgene (now owned by Monsanto) is a start up project from UC Davis funding, and their public relations reps are regular attendees at any event in Davis that discusses cause and effect risks of genetically engineered food products. In nearby Solano county are biotech/pharma peddlers Genentech and Chiron..
article from 2000;
"Biotech is "beginning to worry the broad population -- the soccer moms and so forth," said Christine Bruhn, who researches consumer attitudes toward biotech at the University of California, Davis. "They're hearing, "There's something in your food and you don't know about it.' "
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 http://www.biotech-info.net/biotech_backlash.html
http://www.biotech-info.net/index.html
Naturally when an expert on the risks of genetic engineered food comes to Davis, the pro-biotech forces will show up in full force. Jeffry Smith, author of "Seeds of Deception" was nearly shouted down during a lecture at the public library in Davis by the loyal Calgene public relations reps who called Percy Schmeiser a theif. Percy is a Canadian canola farmer who was sued by Monsanto when their patented GE canola seed fertilized his canola plants..
"Monsanto's position was that it didn't matter whether Schmeiser knew or not that his canola field was contaminated with the Roundup Ready gene, or whether or not he took advantage of the technology (he didn't); that he must pay Monsanto their Technology Fee of $15./acre."
http://www.percyschmeiser.com/
We can always count on the Calgene employees to appear at lectures in Davis and make outrageous statements like this one;
"I very much believe that we should evaluate a new technology and not summarily discard it," said Norris, 62, a kind-faced native of England. "We need to do the research. This technology is coming along; I need to know about it."
He called the vandalism infuriating, "the luxury of a well-fed society. If you were starving, wondering where your next meal is coming from, you would be embracing this technology."
http://www.biotech-info.net/biotech_backlash.html
Well, apparently the nations in Africa that rejected USAID products containing genetically engineered crops didn't seem too eager to cuddle with this technology..
"The Zambian Government has finally decided not to accept a donation of genetically modified food for nearly three million of its people facing famine. The decision was taken after the Zambian Government despatched a team of scientists around the world to study the potential effects of importing GM crops.
"There's no justification for feeding people 'poison'"
Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia
The food aid was initially offered by the international community to Zambia and five other Southern African countries, but President Levy Mwanawasa referred to the food as "poison"."
link to www.mindfully.org
UC Davis initially sponsored Calgene corporation's startup. Now Calgene's owner, Monsanto, sponsors US Davis with grants for biotechnology research. Here's a listing of other grants from biotech corporations, covers every letter in the alphabet..
http://ucdiscoverygrant.org/portfolio/sponsors/biotech.htm
Monsanto's Calgene office is located in Davis at 1920 5th Street. Calgene came up with the Flavr-Savr tomato, a genetically engineered tomato. Rats will normally eat anything, but their sixth sense was telling them to avoid those shiny fresh Calgene tomato's..
"Calgene, the makers of the first GM crop, the FlavrSavr tomato, was the only company to submit detailed raw data from animal feeding studies to the FDA. Their lab rats refused to eat the tomatoes and had to be force-fed. Several developed stomach lesions, and seven of forty died within two weeks. The tomato was approved, but has since been taken off the market."
http://www.seedsofdeception.com/GMFree/AboutGMFoods/FAQs/index.cfm
About Calgene;
http://daviswiki.org/Calgene_Inc.
Well, organic activists don't want to be called close minded bulllies for refusing to listen to poor wittle biotech corporations. Out of fairness, maybe someone can stop by the Monsanto/Calgene office in Davis and invite their PR reps to attend this upcoming lecture. Surely Calgene PR reps will want to promote whatever their latest gene spliced business venture is to naive consumers..
"5 Reasons to reject co-existance"
"Here are five reasons why the issue of contamination must lead to a complete rejection of GMOs:"
http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=280
Having a can o' Coca-cola before the lecture? Coca-cola uses Monsanto's biotech ingredients in their high fructose corn syrup. Coca-cola is the drug of choice on UC Davis campus..
http://www.killercoke.org/
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