GM Foods - One to Watch
BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Horizon, Jimmy's GM Food Fight
Jimmy 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?
A very fair programme - he tried to present both sides fairly and had to bend over backwards to help Fatty Melchett and chums as they failed to produce any coherent argument. As he finished in Africa where the promise of GM to tackle hunger was explained the European prevention of them taking up such technology was obviously immoral.
(One minor gripe was his repeated statement that producing cheaper food only benefited the producers, he missed the point it actually helps consumers a lot more.)