19th June 2019
Dossier on Vandana Shiva – a foreign-funded violence-supporting saboteur who can’t identify a rice plant
I had heard about Vandana Shiva in the past but thought she is just plain stupid – intellectually feeble, being incapable of understanding science and economics. In recent days I’ve come across a really dark side to her approach and am starting this a public dossier. This post will evolve as more information comes in.
Report on her foreign funded activism by Intelligence Bureau
See: What the IB said about FOREIGN FUNDED Vandana Shiva and Kavitha Kuruganti
I raised some of these issues here: What’s behind the science denial of anti-GM activists?
Anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva earns $40,000 per speech advocating policies harming poor – Forbes 2014
Complete ignorance about plants
#KisanSatyagraha
This incompetent physicist couldn't get a job in physics as a tutor so jumped into biology with ZERO knowledge but ability to lie repeatedly, and support for violence. https://t.co/xyHX736A2G— Sanjeev Sabhlok (@sabhlok) June 18, 2019
Strong support for extreme violence
@PMOIndia @narendramodi – I was not aware that Vandana Shiva was an active proponent of violence. Please act urgently and ask India to shun her sabotage and disinformation campaign. https://t.co/dwcbXCpP8y
— Sanjeev Sabhlok (@sabhlok) June 18, 2019
More on the Eco-Arsonist Sentenced to Nearly 22 Years
Vandana Shiva Endorses Murder of Biotech Supporters
@drvandanashiva @kkuruganti please be aware that I'm now fully onto you and will educate India about your true colours in my next TOI post. https://t.co/ghu9oOFPR3
— Sanjeev Sabhlok (@sabhlok) June 18, 2019
Blatant lies regarding “genocide” (farmer suicide)
“Suicides have intensified after the introduction of GMO Bt cotton [in India],” she has written again and again [Source]
“Yes, Indian farmer suicide is a real phenomenon, but genetically engineered crops are not the cause of this incredibly complex national tragedy. Around one Indian farmer takes his own life every half hour, but the suicide rate has remained relatively steady despite the growing acreage of genetically engineered crops.” [Source]
there’s Shiva’s most widespread claim: That farmers are killing themselves because GMO seeds mire them in debt. If this were the case, we’d expect to see an increase in the number of suicides as GMOs were introduced and became widespread. But the suicide rate among farmers in India remained level (here’s where I looked at this before). Check out this graph from Nature: [Source]
Chronic BIG TIME liar
Shiva said last year that Bt-[genetically engineered] cotton-seed costs had risen by eight thousand per cent in India since 2002. In fact, the prices of modified seeds, which are regulated by the government, have fallen steadily. [Source]
Shiva also says that Monsanto’s patents prevent poor people from saving seeds. That is not the case in India. The Farmers’ Rights Act of 2001 guarantees every person the right to “save, use, sow, resow, exchange, share, or sell’’ his seeds. [Source]
SHE LIES REALLY BIG TIME AGAINST THE GREEN REVOLUTION!
She argues that “that the introduction of modern agricultural techniques in India – the ‘green revolution’ – has led to a state where: “The rich diversity and sustainable systems of food production are being destroyed in the name of increasing food production.”
BUT THE FACTS –
“Today, India produces 204 million tons of grain a year. To produce that quantity with 1960s techniques would require three times as much land under cultivation. If India had stuck to traditional methods, by now it would be seeing millions of deaths from starvation every year – and it would have ploughed all the wild land.” [Source]
