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The controversy between pro-GM (genetically modified organisms) and anti-GM makes the passionate debate and sometimes incomprehensible. This global overview untangle fact from fiction, Scientific evidence in support.
For over twenty years, the GMOS (genetically modified organisms), especially plants, continue to expand on the planet, in order to improve soybean yields, corn, cotton, rapeseed, rice, etc. ten countries, on in twenty-eight who grow, represent, by themselves, 98 % of the global area of transgenic crops - either 11 % farmland -, primarily in the Americas, the Indian subcontinent and China. In the USA, wherein the first transgenic soybean plants were introduced in 1996, GMO account for about 90 % soybean crop, corn and cotton. According to their defenders, they are essential to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population. This is the argument of the sector giant, the American seed company Monsanto, which also produces the famous Roundup, un herbicide total dont la substance active, glyphosate, save GMO plants.
Documentary by Frédéric Castaignède (France, 2015, 1h41mn) ART