Event - Oct 14 - "Gates to a Global Empire" w Vandana Shiva, Soil4Climate & Others

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Oct 12, 2020, 5:07:03 PM10/12/20

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"Gates to a Global Empire" - Standing for Regenerative Ag and Against Bill Gates and Food Imperialism

Soil4Climate is honored to participate with food sovereignty heroine Vandana Shiva in this important event standing for soil carbon enhancing regenerative ag and against deleterious high-tech food imperialism posing as climate activism. Won't you please attend and share with colleagues.

Additional information is below.

Thank you, - Seth

On 14 October 2020, at 5pm CEST, Navdanya International will launch its new Global Citizens’ Report “Gates to a Global Empire”, which has brought together contributions from civil society leaders and organizations in cross-sectoral fields and testimonials from civil society movements across the world.

A panel of contributing authors will present the report through an online Zoom conference, which will also be broadcast live on Navdanya International Facebook Page and event.

Register in advance for this webinar on Zoom: http://bit.ly/14OctGTGE

The report gathers evidence and throws light on the dangers of philanthrocapitalism, which is boosting the corporate takeover of our seed, agriculture, food, knowledge and global health systems, manipulating information and eroding our democracies. Over the last 30 years it has emerged as a major force, able to derail the international agenda and push our future and the future of our planet towards extinction and ecological collapse.

Throughout the report, we see how the patterns of technocratic solutionism, powered by an unholy alliance between big-capital, science and technology institutions and states, are embodied by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and put into accelerated action through philanthropic development. Through its various initiatives, sub-organizations, development schemes and funding mechanisms, the Gates weave an intricate web of wide-ranging power and influence, obscured through all its separate strands. The report addresses a large part of this web of power. A power which deliberately ignores the past failures of the very technologies they wish to push, and which disregards any potential problem their initiatives might yield, power focused primarily on profit and market expansion.

The report will be made available for free download on Navdanya International website on October 14th.

The recorded video of the conference will be made available on YouTube, on October 15th.

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My contribution was an essay, originally on Medium.

Opinion: Software to Swallow — Impossible Foods Should Be Called Impossible Patents

Intellectual Property Model of Food Maintains Harmful Reliance on GMO Grains, Detracts from Regenerative Agriculture, Hastens Soil Loss

Opinion: Software to Swallow — Impossible Foods Should Be Called Impossible Patents

Intellectual Property Model of Food Maintains Harmful Reliance on GMO Grains, Detracts from Regenerative Agriculture, Hastens Soil Loss

Opinion: Software to Swallow — Impossible Foods Should Be Called Impossible Patents - Intellectual Property Model of Food Maintains Harmful Reliance on GMO Grains, Detracts from Regenerative Agriculture, Hastens Soil Loss

https://medium.com/@sethitzkan/opinion-software-to-swallow-impossible-foods-should-be-called-impossible-patents-71805ecec9de

Detracts from Regenerative Agriculture, Hastens Soil Loss

Seth J. Itzkan

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