Mark Schapiro, award-winning international and environmental journalist, talks about his most recent book Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save our Food Supply, how he got interested in seeds to begin with and how seeds are—in many ways—the most primal thing living organisms on this planet share. (Which is why the current state of seed breeding, seed patenting and total control of the seed industry by huge corporations is so troubling!)

 Tune in to hear about:

• Who, exactly, controls the world’s seed varieties
• Why Mark calls seeds bred by large corporations for wide application “crack baby seeds” and how these seeds differ from locally bred varieties
• How the seeds produced by huge seed companies are not helping our world’s climate change predicament one iota
• Why, in spite of the discouraging current state of affairs, Mark feels hopeful about the future of our seeds, agriculture and planet