And the Welcome to Art Bell Somewhere in Time. Tonight featuring Coast to Coast

AM from January 26th 1999. From the High Desert in the American Southwest. I did you all good evening or good morning as the case may be and welcome to another edition of the

the weird.

Sometimes I just call it that.

Sometimes, in fact, it really is.

This is Strange Talk Radio indeed, it's called

Close to Coast AM, and it's heard from the well toward the west the Hawaiian

and Tian Island chains eastward to the Caribbean and the US Virgin Islands

south into south America north all the way to the poll, and worldwide on the internet.

Thanks to broadcast.com. Thank you, broadcast.com. That's us. All right, We are going to talk tonight about something that caught my attention

really, really, really hard, and it may well be that I don't understand properly what I should understand

but it's called Terminator Seed technology and if I understand it correctly it would put plant diversity

in fact the world's food supply at risk.

Basically, it is this, I guess.

Right now, in some parts of the world,

not necessarily where we are, but in some parts of the world not necessarily where we are but in some parts of the world

farmers who don't have money to go buy fresh seed every year

do as farmers have done since the beginning of time and get their seeds from the crop that they harvest.

That's the way it used to be done.

I understand that a lot of seed companies have contracts with farmers.

Contracts the farmers have to sign to get seed which basically promise they will not use the

seed from the crop for next year's crop whatever.

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