Frontline: Harvest of Fear
April 29, 2010 by biotechbillboard.com
Product Description
Are genetically modified foods a vital scientific breakthrough that will help to end world hunger and reduce global pollution, or are they “Frankenfoods” that will ruin health and provoke environmental disaster? NOVA and FRONTLINE present the first in-depth TV investigation of the perils and potential of this powerful new technology. Public televisions’s highest rated public affairs series, FRONTLINE has been nationally recognized with Emmys, Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards. FRONTLINE investigates a broad spectrum of important events and the year’s most critical issues.
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I was impressed by the thorough approach taken in this long (2 hour!) documentary. Given a choice between genetically altered food and pesticides what does one choose? Is the insistence on natural food the sort of luxury only the developed world can afford? How trustworthy is big agriculture? And why have the anti-genetic food movements resorted to scare tactics? A particularly well-done piece of journalism.
Anyway, here’s the official blurb: “Frontline and Nova explore the intensifying debate over genetically-modifed (GM) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotech, and food industry representatives, US regulators, and critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report…explores the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, of this new technology.”
Rating: 5 / 5