Vandana Shiva Quotes About Royalty

Quotes about: Royalty

• Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a corporation. Over-the-fence exchanges have started to be treated as crimes. Or, if you need a biological pest control, you can no longer use the need seed in your back yard. Instead you have to depend on the Grace Corporation or some other entity. That kind of dependency basically leads to increased poverty and increased ecological destruction.

  Vandana Shiva

  Years, Grace, Pay

  Source: scottlondon.com

• When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we're not liable.

  Vandana Shiva

  Gmos, Problem, Royalty

• The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.

  Vandana Shiva

  Children, Thinking, Growth

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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