GMO, LIES AND TRUTH

For the past twenty years, GMOs have been steadily spreading across the planet: genetically modified organisms; plants in particular, whose genetic material has been transformed by scientists, in particular to try and improve their yields. Soya, corn, cotton, rapeseed... GMOs now cover over 10% of the world's cultivated land.

But they are also hotly contested. All over the world, citizens are worried about the risks of GMOs: not only to health, but also to the environment and to farmers. They denounce the stranglehold of seed and pesticide giants such as the American Monsanto.

A predicted disaster for some, major progress for others... The worldwide polemic between anti and pro-GMOs has made the debate passionate and sometimes unreadable, polluted by misleading arguments that are only apparently scientific. How can we disentangle the true from the false? Where does the truth lie about GMOs?

Filmed in 11 countries across 4 continents, the film explores all the issues surrounding GMOs, and opens the doors - usually closed - of the manufacturers of transgenic plants and animals.