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Stolen Harvest
The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
by Vandana Shiva
148 pages, paperback, South End Press, 1999, $14.00
In Stolen Harvest, Vandana Shiva charts the implacts of globalized, corporate agriculture on small farmers, the environment, and the quality of the food we eat. With chapters on genetically engineered seeds, patents o life, mad cows and sacred cows, and the debate on shrimp farming, this is an impassioned and inspiring book that will shape the debate about genetic engineering and commercial agriculture for years to come.
Quotes from Stolen Harvest
"Over the past two decades every issue I have been engaged in as an ecological activist and organic intellectual has revealed that what the industrial economy calls "growth" is really a form of theft from nature and people.
"It is true that cutting down forests or converting natural forests into monocultures of pine and wucalyptus for industrial raw material generates revenues and growth. But this growth is based on robbing.
Table of Contents of Stolen Harvest
Introduction
Piracy Through Patents: The Second Coming of Columbus
Chapter One
The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Chapter Two
Soy Imperialism and the Destruction of Local Food
Cultures
Chapter Three
The Stolen Harvest Under the Sea
Chapter Four
Mad Cows and Sacred Cows
Chapter Five
The Stolen Harvest of Seed
Chapter Six
Genetic Engineering and Food Security
Chapter Seven
Reclaiming Food Democracy