About the film

In 2011, a billion human beings are starving and 1.4 billion do not have access to electricity. GMO and nuclear energy, result from the same world: post Second World War. They appear as unavoidable. Even so, should we implement them, without any long-term proof? For the first time, the health impact of a GMO and a widely used pesticide have been comprehensively assessed in a long-term animal feeding trial of greater duration and with more detailed analyses than any previous studies, by environmental and food agencies, governments, industries or researchers institutes. The results, which are of serious concern, included increased and more rapid mortality, coupled with hormonal nonlinear and sex related effects. Females developed significant and numerous mammary tumors, pituitary and kidney problems. Males died mostly from severe hepatorenal chronic deficiencies. Professor Seralini's team in the University of Caen is publishing this detailed study in one of the leading scientific international peer-reviewed journals of food toxicology, on-line on September 19, 2012.The implications are extremely serious. They demonstrate the toxicity, both of a GMO with the most widely spread transgenic character and of the most widely used herbicide, even when ingested at extremely low levels. In addition, these results call into question the adequacy of the current regulatory process, used throughout the world by agencies involved in the assessment of health, food and chemicals, and industries seeking commercialization of products.

Wybrane festiwale i nagrody / Selected festivals and awards: 2012 – FF Edynburg / Edinburgh FF, 2012 – FF Cambridge / Cambridge FF