{"id":9934,"date":"2013-01-05T23:53:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T05:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2013-01-05T23:53:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T05:53:25","slug":"vandana-shiva-compares-gmos-to-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=9934","title":{"rendered":"Vandana Shiva Compares GMOs to Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buy Clonazepam Without Prescription Modern day heretics have it easy compared to their medieval antecedents (at least in the West). Denouncing dogma that they once propagated won’t get them tortured and burned at the stake. But they do stand a good chance of provoking hostile blowback, which is what Mark Lynas, the British environmental writer, has experienced this week.<\/p>\n

Amoxicillin 500mg Buy Online That’s because Lynas has just repudiated, \u00a0in no uncertain terms,\u00a0the anti-GMO movement he helped give birth to in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

https://funkybutter.com/about/ In a heartfelt and hardhitting speech<\/a>, Lynas apologized “for having spent several years ripping up GM crops,” and for sowing unfounded fears that have been “exported by NGOs like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to Africa, India and the rest of Asia, where GM is still banned today.” Referring to the worldwide biotech restrictions, Lynas also said:<\/p>\n

But most important of all, farmers should be free to choose what kind of technologies they want to adopt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://accessity.org/marketplace/ Now there’s a number of things in the speech by Lynas that people can take issue with, such as what I already discussed here<\/a>. But I don’t see how a statement defending the rights of farmers is controversial.\u00a0Somehow, though, Vandana Shiva, the Indian environmentalist and anti-GMO activist blurted<\/a> this out on twitter:<\/p>\n

https://blackbullextremehoney.com/black-bull-extreme-honey-restores-confidence-and-strength/ #MarkLynas<\/a> saying farmers shd be free to grow #GMOs<\/a> which can contaminate #organic<\/a> farms is like saying #rapists<\/a> shd have freedom to rape<\/p>\n

https://fieldenddental.com/invisalign/ \u2014 Dr. Vandana Shiva (@drvandanashiva) January 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I saw this, it took my breath away, especially in light of the recent horrible gang rape and death\u00a0in India that seems to have jolted<\/a> that country into confronting its predatory culture of harassment and violence against women. Others, I noticed, were similarly aghast.<\/p>\n

Buy Clonazepam Online Overnight @drvandanashiva<\/a> Shame on you for comparing GMOs to rape. That is a despicable argument that devalues women, men, and children.<\/p>\n

Purchase Klonopin Online \u2014 Karl Haro von Mogel (@kjhvm) January 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Clonazepam Without Prescription That was from one scientist. Here’s from another:<\/p>\n

.@drvandanashiva<\/a> Really?! This is a disgusting comment, insulting on so many levels. I’m not a big fan of GMOs, but you should apologize.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jonathan Foley (@GlobalEcoGuy) January 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://www.soundcontrolroom.com/biography/ Could Shiva’s insensitive tweet have been said in haste, or did it reflect the warped attitude of an activist? You be the judge after reading this op-ed<\/a> from her last week, which includes this statement:<\/p>\n

Tramadol Online Purchase I have repeatedly stressed that the rape of the Earth and rape of women are intimately linked, both metaphorically in shaping worldviews and materially in shaping women’s everyday lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a person who is widely venerated as a feminist and champion of social and environmental causes.<\/p>\n

Order Lorazepam Online https://www.laalacenadelpastelero.com/flower-1/ UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0Having been offline for nearly a day since Shiva made her offensive tweet, I didn’t catch what some others had already blogged, such as Robert Wilson here<\/a>. Definitely check it out.<\/p>\n

\"Vandana<\/div>\n
\u00a0[Image<\/a>\/Vandana Shiva during a television interview with Bill Moyers in 2012.<\/em>]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Modern day heretics have it easy compared to their medieval antecedents (at least in the West). Denouncing dogma that they once propagated won’t get them tortured and burned at the stake. But they do stand a good chance of provoking hostile blowback, which is what Mark Lynas, the British environmental writer, has experienced this week….Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2496,2724,2967],"tags":[743,1126,1298,1735],"class_list":["post-9934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-gmos","category-select","tag-biotechnology","tag-gmos","tag-mark-lynas","tag-vandana-shiva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}