Blog 4 - - - Section 41

Women Indigenous Knowledge and biodiversity conservation
Finding and learning from the different views women have on nature and humans use of the environment, Compared to men’s views that are focused on economical gain. Using the view of women, considered the “second sex”, like today’s biodiversity, they are able to look from the less desired side, diversity, and look upon monocultures to see their true destructive, non-progressive ways in industry. Current views of power see diversity and tribal based ways of life to be primitive and outdated, when compared to the powerful progression of mono based ways of life. The biases of monocultures being the only commercial way of making money, leaves diversity with the label of being very inefficient and unproductive. Diverse practices prove to be more employing for many regions of the world where jobs are scarce. Technology to replace labor is good when labor is short or too expensive, but is very damaging when people are willing to work, for reasonable wages, but are denied. Much of the time it leads to poverty in the areas.Lots of labour studies exclude “women’s work” because it is hard to place the many jobs performed, and many are not for wages, just like diversity, its impacts are greater that the economic value, many unseen factors are present. Women’s techniques for producing and managing seeds, allow for long term use and growth, the seed only become stronger. Cooperation’s on the other hand develop over engineered seed, resistant to everything, but designed to die every year, to have repeat customers.
New GMO’s are using patens to protect their products, sealing seed structures produced by nature and used by the third world. These unnatural products have unknown problems, and can be dangerous. Recent concerns with GMO’s have been: Toxins added to modify more structures, Lower nutrient quality, Composition alterations, New allergic reactions to some foods, Rick to domestic animals, and can change habitats. The same cooperation’s that gave us pesticides, are now giving us “green” GMO’s, the effects are still not known, and society as a whole is the new lab test, the test results will be in soon.


Using GMO’s has benefits for areas that find it hard to grow local and necessary food. Should they be released with patens and unknown results, no. People are finding themselves in lawsuits and no seeds to grow due to this ridicule law. Seeing the problem from the other side of the fence allows everyone to take a second look, and see what we missed the first time around. Finding and understanding the no so noticeable connection, that are vital to survival, maybe will let us stop before we have gone too far. It is happening to fast, that our choice to buy GMO’s is shrinking, there should be more clear labelling and always have choice. People should not be so trusting in North America, if anything seeing Europe banning our GMO’s should put huge red flags up.