Shiva: "Screw All Ya'll Florida Farmers!"
I get rather irritated when I listen to Vandana Shiva, mostly because her ideas are rooted in a place of environmentalism, something we both agree upon. The problem is that she is touted as an expert in science and transgenic (GMO) organisms, and she is absolutely clueless. Couple this to an anti-corporate agenda, and this seemingly kind person with concerns for the planet and people is a fountain of bad information. She puts her anti-corporate agenda ahead of the needs of those that desperately need technology, and Florida farms are a great example. She describes herself as a physicist, carrying an undergraduate degree in that discipline. I know dozens of people with undergrad degrees in psychology. That does not make them psychologists. Then she comes to a state in an agricultural crisis, and then trashes the leading solution. The first word is "physicist", as they try to build her credibility as a scientist. She is an activist wtih a narrow and clear age