The film will be available to watch November 18-20 with a Q&A on November 20 at 2:00 EST discussing local food issues with one of the filmmakers and activists from Ohio. Register today to learn more about this amazing leader/activist and about the food we eat.

What did you have for breakfast today? For lunch or dinner? Do you know where what you ate comes from or how it was grown or who grew it? Many of us have taken for granted that what we are eating and feeding our families is healthy for us. The shift in food production from growing our own food to small local farmers to purchasing it at large corporate grocery stores has big implications not only for our health, but the health of the soil, the air and the water....NATURE.

Vandana Shiva is a powerhouse leader in the movement against corporate agriculture and for a return to local, healthy food production. The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, a feature-length documentary, presents the remarkable life story of this Gandhian eco-activist and agro-ecologist.

Trained as a Physicist at the University of Punjab, she completed her Ph.D. on the ‘Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory’ from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India.

In 1982 she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), an independent research institute that addresses the most significant problems of ecology of our times, and two years later, Navdanya (‘nine seeds’) the movement in defense of biodiversity and the contributions made to the climate, environment and society by small farmers. 

"There is a disconnect everywhere because the dominant industrialized and globalized food system, controlled by a handful of corporations, is destroying the planet, farmers' livelihoods, people's health, democracy, and peace. In the face of this, redesigning the food system has become a survival imperative."
-- From Who Really Feeds the World by Vandana Shiva.

 

 Don't miss this opportunity to learn about not only this amazing activist, but about our food systems and how we can change and must change our ways if we want our children to have a healthy future.