[…] GMO mustard — being pushed on India through a mega scientific fraud, only to open the doors for Bayer-Monsanto (MOBAY during the WorldWars) — is set to invade our ecosystems and farms, destroy our bio-diversity and food cultures, and undermine our Bio-safety & food sovereignty. […]

Anna Swaraj (Food Freedom)

By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 30 December 2015

“Instead of regulating those selling unhealthy oils, the government is trying to close Gandhi’s ghani — producing pure oil in front of the eyes of consumers — because it does not have a lab attached to it”

GMO in my mustard

By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 11 August 2015

Poster – GMO Mustard – Bayer Patents, Pental Fraud

Six Points in Defense of Native Indian Mustard

June 2016

On 31st July 2015—we continued the Sarson Satyagraha that we had started in 1998. We gathered in Rajghat to take a pledge that we will protect our mustard. We invite every citizen who cares about their food, their health, their nation, the biodiversity of this country, their farmers, to join the Sarson Satyagraha. Our Seed Freedom, our Food Freedom depends on staying free of GMO mustard.

“In 1998 India’s indigenous edible oils made from mustard, coconut, sesame, linseed and groundnut processed in artisanal cold-press mills were banned, using “food safety” as an excuse. The restrictions on import of soya oil were simultaneously removed. Ten million farmers’ livelihoods were threatened. One million oil mills in villages were closed. And millions of tons of artificially cheap GMO soya oil continue to be dumped on India. Women from the slums of Delhi came out in a movement to reject soya and bring back mustard oil. “Sarson bachao, soyabean bhagao” (save the mustard, drive away the soyabean) was the women’s call from the streets of Delhi. We did succeed in bringing back mustard through our “sarson satyagraha” (non-cooperation with the ban on mustard oil).”

Source: Resurgence No. 242 May/June 2007
From the speech delivered at the Terra Madre conference, Turin, Italy – Fall 2006
http://www.swamahiman.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Food-Freedom-6-Resurgence.pdf

Learn more:
BOOK – Stolen Harvest, by Vandana Shiva
Chapter 2 Soy Imperialism and the Destruction of Local Food Cultures
2000 – South End Press
http://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Harvest-Hijacking-Global-Supply/dp/0896086070

Events and Actions

#GMMustard =Bayer Mustard& GMO push is abt stealing royalties, exploiting & profiting from Indian farmers' debt & suicides @drvandanashiva pic.twitter.com/mlTwM78fH1

— Indra Shekhar Singh (@IndraSsingh) May 23, 2017