Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and BiotechnologyBloomsbury Academic, 1993 - 184 pages Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the South in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment and the posititon of women in society coincide. In this new volume, she brings together her thinking on the protection of biodiversity, the implications of biotechnology, and the consequences for agriculture of the global pre-eminence of Western-style scientific knowledge. |
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... animal DNAs to bacterial plasmid DNA or bacteriophage DNA should be carefully weighed in light of the fact that many types of animal cell DNAs contain se- quences common to RNA tumour viruses . Since joining of any foreign DNA to a DNA ...
... animal improvement has been based on the destruction of the biodiversity which it uses as raw material . The irony of plant and animal breeding is that it destroys the very building blocks on which the technology depends . Forestry ...
... animals of which 70 million are the male progeny of what the Western perspective sees as ' useless ' low milk - yielding cows . It has been calculated that to replace animal power in agriculture , India would have to spend about US ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
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Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva Limited preview - 1993 |
Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva No preview available - 2011 |