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• Producers: PBS
• Studio: PBS Video
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000M6ERYM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #336,425 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Are genetically modified foods a vital scientific breakthrough that will help to end world hunger and reduce global pollution, or are they 'Frankenfoods' that will ruin health and provoke environmental disaster? NOVA and FRONTLINE present the first in-depth TV investigation of the perils and potential of this powerful new technology.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and Sometimes Mind-Blowing, February 9, 2009

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Theseus "theseus" (US of A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harvest of Fear: A Frontline/NOVA Special (VHS Tape)

I was impressed by the thorough approach taken in this long (2 hour!) documentary. Given a choice between genetically altered food and pesticides what does one choose? Is the insistence on natural food the sort of luxury only the developed world can afford? How trustworthy is big agriculture? And why have the anti-genetic food movements resorted to scare tactics? A particularly well-done piece of journalism.

Anyway, here's the official blurb: "Frontline and Nova explore the intensifying debate over genetically-modifed (GM) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotech, and food industry representatives, US regulators, and critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report...explores the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, of this new technology."