Raising Resistance

Raising Resistance

85 mins | Documentary | May 3, 2012

Paraguay's lush soy farms are battlegrounds between huge agri-business and small farmers. The GMO beans fatten up cattle in rich countries so steaks remain cheap. But the pesticides used are destroying the crops of the campesinos and harming their kids.

Raising Resistance

85 mins | Documentary | May 3, 2012

Raising Resistance
Paraguay's lush soy farms are battlegrounds between huge agri-business and small farmers. The GMO beans fatten up cattle in rich countries so steaks remain cheap. But the pesticides used are destroying the crops of the campesinos and harming their kids.
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Dreamer Joint Venture Filmproduction, Maximage GmbH, Pandora Filmverleih, SRG SSR
Original title Raising Resistance
Directors Bettina Borgfeld, David Bernet
Writers Bettina Borgfeld, Christin Stoltz, David Bernet

Cast

Nelson Arevalos

as Self