The document discusses issues related to industrialized agriculture including chemical addiction, lack of crop rotation, overuse of fertilizers, animal welfare concerns, and environmental impacts. It then discusses the work of Vandana Shiva who advocates for organic farming and localization as alternatives to globalized industrial agriculture. Shiva argues this approach can produce more food while addressing issues like food security and availability in a sustainable manner. She challenges Western ideas of domination over nature and compares this to patriarchal domination of women.

1. Mandisa Amber, M.A., M.F.A.
ARCHAEOMYTHOLOGY. JULY 16TH
, 2015

2. Morning Pages

3. Current Events

4. • FOOD – Record Descriptions
• Industrialized production of livestock, poultry, fish, and crops. The
methods of industrial agriculture are technoscientific, economic, and
political. They include innovation in agricultural machinery and farming
methods, genetic technology, techniques for achieving economies of scale
in production, the creation of new markets for consumption, the
application of patent protection to genetic information, and global trade.
(Wikipedia)
• Chemical addiction, ever increasing costs
• No crop rotation, Heavy use of fertilizer
• Animals in buildings, dosed with meds, antibiotics
• Destruction of soil. Water wasted & toxic runoff
• Health risks to farmers, consumers, animals and the environment

5. Theatre of the Oppressed

8. • Localization – having discernment
on what we should bring in and out
of our economy with extreme
concerns for the environment
• “Globalization is taking us back to
the most primitive of capital
accumilation.To the most gross of
colonialism and colonization where
land, forests and rivers are
appropriated. This is not the future.”
Vandana Shiva – film .

9. • Organic Agriculture can produce more food and address the issues of
food security, and food availability – Vandana Shiva.
• Shiva advocates against the prevalent "patriarchal logic of exclusion,"
claiming that a woman-focused system would change the current system
in an extremely positive manner.[21]
• Challenges the Western idea that man has domination and mastery over
nature and compares this to the ways that patriarchy has sought to
dominate women.
• Women are the first to loose if damage occurs
on the earth and in the environment.
Author, Ecologist, Philosopher,
Eco-Feminist, Environmental Activist.

10.  1981, Social Economic and Ecological Impact of Social Forestry in
 1988, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India,
 1991, Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India,
 1992, The Violence of the Green Revolution: Ecological degradation and political conflict in Punjab,
 1992, Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives (editor); Zed Press, United Kingdom
 1993, Women, Ecology and Health: Rebuilding Connections (editor), Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Kali
for Women, New Delhi
 1993, Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Agriculture, Zed Press, New Delhi
 1993, Ecofeminism, Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva,
 1994, Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide, Earthscan, London,
1995, Biopolitics (with Ingunn Moser), Zed Books, United Kingdom
 1997, Biopiracy: the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, South End Press, Cambridge Massachusetts,
 2000, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, South End Press, Cambridge Massachusetts,
2000, Tomorrow's Biodiversity, Thames and Hudson, London, ISBN 0-500-28239-0
 2001, Patents, Myths and Reality, Penguin India
 2002, Water Wars; Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, South End Press, Cambridge Massachusetts
 2005, India Divided, Seven Stories Press,
 2005, Globalization's New Wars: Seed, Water and Life Forms Women Unlimited, New Delhi, ISBN 81-88965-17-0
 2005, Breakfast of Biodiversity: the Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction, ISBN 0-935028-96-X
 2005, Earth Democracy; Justice, Sustainability, and Peace, South End Press, ISBN 0-89608-745-X
Books by Vandana Shiva

11.  Let the seed be exhaustless.
(prayer)
 Seeds are to be shared,
renewed, multiplied.
 New patent laws
 Stands up against
Monsanto and other big
companies that are
introducing genetically
modified seeds and
terminator seeds.
Global Food Crisis

12. • A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic
material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.
• Examples are insects, plants, fish, and mammals and micro-organisms such as
bacteria and yeast.
• Increase in food allergies have been linked to GMO’s.
• GMO seeds must be used with GMO fertilizer.
• 4 things to watch out for (
• Energy constraints
• Climage change
• Water use and availability
• Ecological degradation

13. • Heirloom plants are an old
cultivar that is "still maintained
by gardeners and farmers".[1]
• These may have been
commonly grown during
earlier periods in human
history, but are not used in
modern large-scale
agriculture.
• In some parts of the world,
notably the European Union, it
is illegal to sell seeds of
cultivars that are not listed as
approved for sale

16. Suggested Films• One Water
• Deconstructing Supper: Is Your Food Safe?
• The Future of Food
• The Corporation
• Dirt! The Movie
• THRIVE: What on Earth Will it Take? and This is What
Democracy Looks Like
• "Ganga from the ground up" a documentary on water
issues in the river Ganges,
• Blue Gold: World Water Wars by Sam Bozzo
• Irena Salina's documentary Flow: For Love of Water
• On the topic of genetically modified crops, she was
featured in the documentary "Fed up!:Genetic Engineering,
Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives"
• The World According to Monsanto,
• Queen of the Sun

17. Class Discussion
• What is your connection to
the earth and your
environment?
• Do you have a garden?
• Do you know where your
food comes from?
• What are your thoughts on
our food system in this
country, and what are your
concerns with the way we
give and take from our land?

18. Americanah Reading
Groups
Group 1 – Ch 24 – 28
Group 2 – Ch 29 – 33
Group 3 – Ch 34 - 39

19. “I change myself, I change the world.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• Developed the concepts of spiritual
activism and nepantleras to describe the
ways contemporary social actors can
combine spirituality with politics to
enact revolutionary change.
• Nepantla, Nahuatl word for the space in
between: a dynamic place of
transformation -- between mind and
heart, between what we are and what we
become, among each other, between
straight and queer, mestizas and Indians,
mestizas and whites, mestiza Indians
and Latinas; spiritual borders, physical
ones, crossing back and forth in
mestizaje- mixture, complexities,
multiple identities and ways of being to
create "a geography of selves.”