Monday, March 06, 2006

TERMINATOR SEEDS

Terminator seeds – Seeds that produce fruit that does not, in turn, produce seeds (such as “seedless” watermelons).  These initial seeds have been patented by the mega-corporations, so the farmer must buy new seeds every year rather than being able to save seeds from his own harvest.  In addition, the farmer can only purchase the seeds from the owners of the mega-corporations.  This becomes so prohibitively expensive that the farmer goes bankrupt.

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