NOS ENFANTS NOUS ACCUSERONT

Category: Documentary
Director: Jean-Paul Jaud
Country: France
Year: 2008
Length: 112'
Production Status: completed

Summary

In Europe every year 100,000 children die of diseases caused by the environment.
In Europe 70% of cancers are linked to the environment : 30% to pollution and 40% to food.
In Europe cases of cancer in children have been increasing by 1.1% yearly for 30 years.

In France the number of cancers in males has increased by 93% in 25 years.
In a little French community at the foot of the Cevennes Mountains, the mayor has decided to take a stance by making the school canteen organic. Here as everywhere, people are onfronted with the anxiety of the dangers of industrial and agro-chemical pollution. It is the start of a fight against a process that could become irreversible, a fight to stop our children accusing us in the future.