Articles by Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods: False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet
Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Foreword by Dr Vandana Shiva, President of Navdanya International – How can we heal our relationship with food in the age of artificial food? Technological solutions aim to replace animal products and other food staples with lab-grown alternatives. Artificial food advocates are reiterating the old and failed rhetoric that industrial agriculture is essential to feed the world.
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How Finance Is Speculating on the Wheat Crisis – Interview with Dr Vandana Shiva
Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – We met Vandana Shiva, president of Navdanya International, to talk about the global situation, rising inequalities and the worrying obesity figures released by the WHO. Global issues which have immediate repercussions on the local.
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Biodiversity Is Health
Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
22 May 2022 – To celebrate World Biodiversity Day, we present Biodiversity Is Health. We break down how all levels of biodiversity have a direct and tangible tie to human health, especially as an intimate connection exists between the biodiversity of our diets and gut, and our surrounding ecosystems, making health a continuum. Biodiversity is, hence, needed at every level of the food system.
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The Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods: False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – Fully artificial food is an increasingly popular trend focused on developing a new line of synthetically produced, ultra-processed food products by using recent advances in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. These new products seek to imitate and replace animal products, food additives, and expensive, rare, or socially conflictive ingredients (such as palm oil).
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The Poison Cartel Is Poisoning the World, Driving Species to Extinction, and Contributing to Hunger
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
1 Aug 2021 Pachamama Day – The web of life is a food web woven by Pachamama through her self-organization, creativity, generative power and regeneration. Food is the flow that embodies our relationship to the earth, materially, biologically, nutritionally, ecologically. Food is the currency of life which flows from biodiversity in living soil, through plants and insects, to sustain the biodiversity in our gut microbiome.
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The Path beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
Message for World Environment Day, 5 Jun 2020 – On 31st May, while people were dying during the Corona Pandemic, while millions had lost their livelihoods and were going hungry during the “lockdown”…, billionaire Elon Musk launched Space X. For me this was a brutal display of the hubris, indifference and power of the 1% who have pushed ecosystems, communities, countries and humanity to the brink.
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World Bee Day: Poisons Mean Extinction for Bees and Humanity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, the UN designated 20 May as World Bee Day. The choices before humanity are clear, a Poison Free Future to save Bees, Farmers, our Food and Humanity. Or continue to use poisons, threatening our common future by walking blindly to extinction through the arrogance that we can substitute bees with artificial intelligence and robots.
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