Tuesday 25 November, 9pm BBC TWOJimmy Doherty, pig farmer, one-time scientist and poster-boy for sustainable food production is on a mission to find out if GM crops really can feed the world.
'We need to double the amount of food we produce in the next fifty years to feed the world's growing population.'
Are GM crops the answer? Or are they a dangerous Frankenstein technology that could start an environmental catastrophe? To find the answers Jimmy is on a journey that will take him from the vast soya plantations of Argentina to the traditional Amish farms of Pennsylvania; and from the cutting-edge technology of the GM laboratories to the banana plantations of Uganda.
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ReplyDeleteHorizon has previous for this caper.
Their 'Chernobyl Nuclear nightmares' (2006) was a nuclear industry erasure of the damage and future harms from that disaster, broadcast conveniently when the uk govt. decided to go for more nuclear power. The BBC Trust upheld complaints that Horizon producer/editorial standards fell below the acceptable - viewers were 'misled'.
In the current case - See The Ecologist - Jimmy's gm food fix.
http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=2003