Preaching to ignorants

BBC Horizon 25 nov 2008
Jimmys GM Food Fight * *

"Following P.R. advice they choose as presenter a warm, familiar trusted figure in the shape of free range pig farmer and tv personality Jimmy Doherty. The script he followed was pure biotech. Jimmy expresses a reservation - film moves straight to the industry response without qualifications or mention of serious contradictory farmer experiences or scientific evidence for each of these 'gm wonder stories'. Nary a mention of the major environmental, social and economic consequences suffered from gm cropping nor of the chicanery of gm approvals, so brilliant at ignoring evidence of toxicity. Jimmy's globetrotting somehow missed India's livestock gm poisonings and where peasant farmer suicides multiplied fourfold in the gm cotton regions due to increased cost and gm failures.

BBC Horizon and Jimmy delivered a propaganda coup for the agri-biotech industry. They must be smiling all the way to their gm piggy banks." link

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early on the show, it become impossible to see "jimmy" as an advocate of sustainable farming, as he goes through pseudo-scientific half truths and biased comments. portraiting european concerns about GM foods as unfounded and ill-informed.
all in all a decent and, possibly efficient, GM propaganda piece.