Jimmys GM Food Fight, BBC Documentary, Horizon
Jimmy Doherty, pig farmer, onetime scientist and posterboy 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 cuttingedge technology of the GM laboratories to the banana plantations of Uganda.
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