Conversation with Aldo Gonzales Rojas
“When you sow maize, throw four seeds at a time: one for the wild animals, another for people with a taste for what’s not theirs, another for festival days and another for the family. Maize is not a business but food for survival, our sustenance and our happiness. When we plant it we bless it to ask for a good harvest for all.
But we have recently found out that native maize varieties have been contaminated with transgenic seeds. This means that what our indigenous peoples took thousands of years to develop can be destroyed in no time at all by companies that trade in life.†Aldo González Rojas, Zapoteco, Oaxaca. - source
Aldo Gonzales Rojas was in Barga this week for a series of discussions with interested parties concerning life in Mexico and problems that the indigenous ethnic groups are having with some multinational grain companies.
Aldo Gonzales Rojas is head of an indigenous community of Sierra Juarez and member of Consejo Nacional Indigenous Mexico
Click on the link below to hear some of the discussion (in Italiano)
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