Reading #10 - Vandana Shiva

Reading the article about Vandana Shiva in the University Colloquium and watching the youtube video of her speaking was very overwhelming. She clearly presents herself as an activist for organic agriculture. Although there is an abundant amount of information that she presented, I can't decide whether I fully agree with her proposal that biodiversity is the ultimate resource that keeps a health food production alive. Shiva is very set that globalization is one of the main reasons that biodiversity is deteriorating, but I believe that globalization had made not only the United States but several other nations prosper with their imports, exports, and international affairs. Additionally, she comes from a very bias stand point because she continually insults the United States and Europe, but highly praises her home of India.
Although there was much that I didn't agree with, there were a few statements that Shiva stated in which I had the same opinion. The one part of the youtube videa that intrigued me was when Shiva said that at a convention she attended there were a group of companies that had a common goal to merge into five main companies to create a monopoly in the food industry worldwide. When she addressed this statement, unfortunately I wasn't baffled because I know that a monopoly has been created in the meat industry in the United States, but I certainly didnt' think this could carry on onto an international level.