eing replaced by new monoculture crops with proven lower nutritional content. Even non-food crops such as tobacco and cotton are being promoted by the large corporations and grown by farmers which were formerly self sustaining and are now reliant on the prices of these export crops. The changing of a nation’s culture of growing many different varieties of rice or mustard seed to the monoculture soybean or canola, can and will have long lasting affects on the cultures and the abilities of farmers and poor families involved to remain sustainable and to survive in the twenty first century.Is Monsanto and the genetically modified organisms the right direction for our world agriculture to be heading? Shiva gives a very convincing argument that things cannot continue on the way they have been. Both our environment and our people are being robbed of their sustainability and history. She is correct in her argument that we need to fight for the common interests and rights of all people everywhere, both North and South. Our corporations and industries need to put sound ecological practices into place which benefit everyone involved and work to feed the world not just steal one harvest from the South to feed the North. Until we are certain that our new ways of production (i.e. biotech/genetically modified/roundup ready) will be sustainable for the entire world and produce a safe food supply, we should not just rush into it with our eyes closed. This will be a long fight but, this book does a great job at laying the groundwork as to what the various battles to come will be and where we have fought already. ...
