Documentary. An original film written and directed by Eric Guéret.
A Program33 production. With the participation of France Télévisions.
"When we find out the whole truth about the dangers of pesticides, it will be a scandal worse than tainted blood. I have no reason to keep quiet." The farmer who speaks to us has cancer at the age of 47. He is a victim of the pesticides he handles every day.
Hundreds of farmers are hit. Victims of phytosanitary products that were believed to be "harmless". These students from intensive agricultural school have been using them since the XNUMXs on their farms until the day when headaches, fatigue and successive comas took them to hospital. Diagnoses: Parkinson's disease, leukemia, cancers, etc. What looks like an epidemic is emerging.
This documentary is an immersion with these farmers suffering from deadly diseases. We will share the fate of these shaken families, in the intimacy of their medical itinerary, of their fight to be recognized by the MSA, on the exploitation to change practices, in court too…
The first victims of this intensive agricultural system, farmers are also its main actors. Calling into question their practices, their heritage, the very meaning given to their mission to "feed the planet", when the disease arrives, it upsets a firmly anchored ideal. Despite everything, the majority of them continue to use these products which eat away at them slowly. Why ? Others organize resistance. Alert farmers and citizens, initiate a symbolic procedure against the giant of phytosanitary products, Monsanto: nothing is lost for these victims who intend to revolutionize their practices.
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