Vandana Shiva
Should Science and Nature run advertorial by wacky Dr. Bronner’s that misleads on GMOs?
David Bronner, CEO of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, presides over a company with famously wacky product labels. ... But apparently, Bronner's ...
Leftist dystopia? Anti-technology fever animates opposition to GMOs and other ‘disruptive’ technologies
Thoughtful people are offering thoughtful critiques of the role of genetic engineering in agriculture and other technological advances that raise ...
Interview: Vandana Shiva responds to New Yorker profile
Correspondent Fedrico Rampini interviews Vandana Shiva for the Italian newspaper Repubblica, in the wake of the controversy surrounding the profile ...
GMO farming abject “failure” claims Center for Food Safety–Is it?
The Center for Food Safety makes the case that GMO crops have "failed", citing "myths" circulated by proponents. Specifically they ...
PBS’s John Hockenberry challenges Vandana Shiva on GMO misstatements
The Takeaway host John Hockenberry interviews anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva on Monsanto, Bt cotton and global trade, pesticide use, farmer ...
Vandana Shiva entitled to her own opinions, not her own facts
A recent New Yorker article by Michael Specter does an excellent job of putting the activism of anti-GMO campaigner, Vandana Shiva, into ...
New Yorker editor among many who stand by criticism of Vandana Shiva
A profile of the anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva in The New Yorker in August by Michael Specter has drawn a blistering, 5,000-word rebuttal from Shiva, who accuses Specter ...
Norman Borlaug inspires biotech-based second ‘Green Revolution’
If Norman Ernest Borlaug were a Roman Catholic, he could be declared a saint immediately. The Church begins the canonisation ...
In support of Shiva’s critique of the Green Revolution
Social media is alive with folks’ thoughts on Michael Specter’s recent New Yorker piece. As the controversy fades, I worry that ...
Media attacks on GMO critics ‘simplistic, misleading representation’
Hot on the heels of a much publicised article in the New Yorker that set out to attack Vandana Shiva ...
Vandana Shiva responsible for ‘irrational’ fears of GMOs, dismisses science that doesn’t suit ideology
The person most responsible for cementing the GMO-suicide link in European minds is the environmentalist Vandana Shiva. She is given ...
‘Delusion’ key to effectiveness in Vandana Shiva’s activism
The ultimate objective of Vandana Shiva is dear to all sane people — the world is beautiful and it has ...
New Yorker editor David Remnick responds to Vandana Shiva criticism of Michael Specter’s profile
The Vandana Shiva affair takes a new turn today with the release of The New Yorker Editor David Remnick's point-by-point ...
Stonyfield founder Gary Hirshberg leverages ‘Vandana Shiva Affair’ to promote GMO labeling
Michael Specter’s essay in The New Yorker against labeling genetically engineered food is fraught with factual errors, and it misses ...
Vandana Shiva, activists confuse prejudices against Big Ag with debate over GMOs
The New Yorker has a fascinating article on Vandana Shiva, a crusader against GMO crops. I’d never heard of her before, ...
Michael Specter discusses his profile of Vandana Shiva
In last week’s The New Yorker magazine, Michael Specter wrote about the work of the environmental activist Vandana Shiva, who has, for ...
Portrayal of Vandana Shiva as ‘credible’ spokesperson for GMO labeling crusade promotes anti-science ‘false balance’
Reports in the GLP and by Michael Specter have painted a devastating picture of Vandana Shiva as an extremist who ...
Vandana Shiva responds to Michael Specter’s New Yorker profile
I am glad that the future of food is being discussed, and thought about, on farms, in homes, on TV, ...
Why liberals are embracing GMOs and rejecting mandatory labeling
Polls show that support for GMOs is weakest among those who call themselves liberals. But slowly that's begun to change ...
Why Vandana Shiva is so right and yet so wrong
Romantic environmentalists tend to get the big-picture problems right, while fudging the details. Rationalists nail the details, but sometimes become ...
Marxist Counterpunch calls Specter New Yorker Shiva profile ‘meretricious hatchet job’
Perhaps nothing symbolizes the decline of the New Yorker magazine more than the hatchet job on Vandana Shiva that appears in the latest ...
Who is Vandana Shiva and why is she saying such awful things about GMOs?
Vandana Shiva's status as a celebrity anti-GMO activist is not in question, but virtually everything else about her, from her ...
Vandana Shiva is no Ghandi, does the impoverished no favors
There have been several Indian pretenders to the Mahatma Gandhi legacy in the 66 years since his assassination, but only ...
Who are the ‘GMO Rogues’ disseminating misinformation?
When it comes to the topic of genetically engineered crops (GE-crops) there is a lot of misinformation. When sourcing the ...
Vandana Shiva by Michael Specter: Demagogue or visionary?
Who believes that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the USDA, National Academy ...
Monsanto in the anti-GMO crosshairs: Fair or foul?
Monsanto is regularly targeted by anti-GMO activists as 'the world's most evil corporation' and a danger to global food independence ...
Bt cotton helped Indian farmers, but success not uniform
Cotton is a light and breathable fabric but it sure does get itself into some very contentious debates. It has been a central ...
