A Film by Bertram Verhaag & Gabriele Kröber
| Suddenly everything seemed possible. In the mid-80s gene technology was believed to be the key to finally subordinate the earth and especially its creatures. Scientists experimented with chickens without feathers and sheep without pelts, with cows producing more milk and goats making silk. The Canadian company AQUA BOUNTY is just about to obtain market approval in 2004 for its sterile, genetically manipulated giant salmon, which grows six times larger in only half the time than the other members of its species living in the wild. Regardless of any fear harboured by consumers the genetically modified fish are soon to land in our pots and frying pans. Without realizing it, already 200 million Americans are guinea pigs. Is there a connection between the increase of chronic diseases or a weakening of the immune system and the consumption of “gene food”? At least some scientists are making this assumption. Is it possible that eating sterile fish in the future might lead to sterility in the consumer? Those questions have remained unanswered up to now… Only a handful of idealistic scientists are defying industry, doing independent research – without the financial support of industry – on the effects of transgenic animals and plants on the environment and our health when we consume genetically modified meat, fish, grain or oil. |
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A DENKmal Film and Haifisch Film Co-Production “MONSTER SALMON AND BUTTERFLIES”
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Gerardo Milsztein BVK SOUND Michael Busch FILM EDITOR Gabriele Kröber BFS POSTPRODUCTION Westend Film & TV Produktion EDITORIALS Gudrun Hanke-El Ghomri/SWR, Ute Schröder/ARTE PRODUCER Michel Morales In CO-PRODUCTION with SWR In Cooperation with ARTE Cofinanced by Hessen Invest Film |
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