Horizon - Jimmy's GM Food Fight
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Horizon - Jimmy's GM Food Fight
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. (R)
- Broadcast on:
- BBC Two, 11:20pm Tuesday 25th November 2008
- First broadcast:
- Tuesday 25th November 2008
- Duration:
- 50 minutes
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