Food: Listen to Grandma
In response to the question, How do you activate people who say, ‘Well, you know, I’m not an expert on these issues. I don’t know what chemicals are involved. It’s all a bit too complicated for me.’ Vandana Shiva says, “As far as issues of food are concerned and toxics in food are concerned, people don’t have to wait for experts to tell them. Just listen to your grandmother. Every grandmother said, “You are what you eat.” And now scientists are finding out that the gut decides our health, and the health of our gut is decided by the food we eat. When we eat toxins, we are killing our gut bacteria and we are killing our brain, we are killing our body’s metabolic systems.”
Interviewed by David Barsamian.
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned voice for sustainable development and social justice. She’s a physicist, scholar and social activist. She is a founder of Navdanya and Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi. She said, “I started Navdanya, nine seeds, as a political act so that farmers would have free seeds in their hands. Using that free seed, they would be able to resist the kind of control system that corporations were trying to establish in India. Through those seeds, they can establish sustainable organic agriculture again.” She is the recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize and the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. She is the author of many books, including Water Wars, Earth Democracy, Soil Not Oil, Oneness vs the 1%, and Terra Viva.
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