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World's Seed Heritage at Risk

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Tags: seeds, Janisse Ray, GM food, corn, The Seed Underground, Monsanto, Irish potato famine, WMNF, Rob Lorei

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up an interview with author Janisse Ray about her new book The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food. From the book's publicity release: "Part memoir, part botany primer, part political manifesto…[by which] even couch potatoes will be enthralled," (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Ray's informed and impassioned plea on behalf of seeds—and therefore our future food—is compelling and vitally important.

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