Listen to Vandana Shiva on CBC podcast

This is a link to a podcast episode of a CBC radio show "the Current" featuring Vandana Shiva.

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/current_20090410_14227.mp3

I have posted her on this blog before. Every time I listen to this woman i'm amazed by her power and fierceness, and ability to synthesize.

she talks about how global industrialized farming is practically driving thousands of poor Indian farmers to suicide!
although her message is Indian specific it is also global as well. small farmers around the world are being driven out of their lands by big agri-company, GMO seed/chemical fertilize companies etc.

What we can do very practically in our daily lives to improve this situation?
Answer: to decentralize the food system.
which means: eat local, buy local from your local farmers (organic when affordable), eat whole foods, less meat, less processed foods, grow a patch of garden in your backyard if you can, and very importantly: learn more about where you food comes from because knowledge is empowering and we can't afford to be ignorant anymore, because our collective ignorance has helped the growth of this giant monster that is the unsustainable, industrialized food system that absolutely feeds on fossil fuels and the lives of the global poor

another two great reads to add on to this topic if you are so inclined:

The Omnivore's dilemma by Michael Pollan
Hope's Edge by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe