This economic system exploited the transformation of nature from a living, nurturing mother to inert, dead and manipulable.
What is Capitalism?
100
52% of farm income is spent on fuel, fertilizer and pesticides that all fluctuate with the price of this natural resource.
What is oil?
100
Processing plants prefer this type of tomato to a ripe one because the conveyor belt can handle them better.
What is firm?
100
NAFTA was implemented in this year.
What is 1994?
100
On Canadian radio, it was said on January 1, 2000, that this would be the first millennium without what?
What are farmers?
200
This French philosopher's famous mind/body dichotomy reinforced a growing sense of European superiority?
Who is Rene Descartes?
200
The U.S. Policy of subsidizing American farmers resulted in surpluses which were exported to newly emerging Third World countries.
What is Food Aid?
200
Agrochemicals are the central component of this "package" that multinational corporations push on farmers around the world.
What is technological?
200
This genetically modified tomato made by Calgene claimed a three week shelf life.
What is the Flavr Savr?
200
A robotic picker can identify tomatoes that are ripe by what sense?
What is smell?
300
According to Barndt, this belief in the superiority of humans has denied us a sense of reciprocity with living things.
What is speciesism?
300
The combination of hybrid seeds, agrochemicals, water systems and machinery necessary to use in monocultural production make up this bundle, referred to by Mexican farmers as "paquete tecnological."
What is technological package?
300
The continued exploitation of natural resources was reinforced by the European belief that nature was equal to this.
What is a raw material?
300
When it comes to genetic engineering, Shiva accuses multinational corporations of this.
What is biopiracy?
300
The period of history we live in has been dubbed what "age?"
What is the Information Age?
400
Colonization of the Americas, Asia and Africa by Europe created this framing of land, meaning "land owned to be exploited."
What is terra nullius?
400
Proponents of the "Green Revolution" found that this chemical, originally used during World War II for chemical warfare in concentration camps, was an effective insecticide.
What is parathion?
400
Mechanization created problems like erosion, energy dependency, capital expenses, interest payments, larger farms and fewer farmers. It was created to raise the address this problem.
What is labor inefficiency?
400
How much money did Calgene invest in creating the Flavr Savr tomato?
What is $4.2 million?
400
This management technique has integrated production, distribution, marketing and consumption.
What is quick response?
500
The separation of the knower from the known is destroying these two types of diversity, according to Shiva.
What are biodiversity and cultural diversity?
500
Vandana Shiva calls this process "an invasion into the seed itself."
What is hybridization?
500
The replacement of human power with animals and replacement of draft animals by gasoline engines are the two phases of this process.
What is mechanization?
500
This agrochemical company genetically engineers their seed to only be resistant to their herbicide, Roundup.
What is Monsanto?
500
4 of the 8 functions that a bar code serves which allow greater social control.
What are advertising, recording a sale, inventory, personal history, group history, organizational surveillance, rational decision making, self monitoring