GMO OMG explores the systematic corporate takeover and potential loss of humanity’s most precious and ancient inheritance: seeds. Director Jeremy Seifert investigates how the loss of seed diversity and corresponding laboratory-assisted genetic alteration of food affects his young children, the health of our planet, and freedom of choice everywhere. GMO OMG follows one family’s struggle to live and eat without participating in an unhealthy, unjust, and destructive food system. In GMO OMG, the encroaching darkness of unknown health and environmental risks, chemical toxins, and food monopoly meets with the light of a growing global movement to take back what we have lost. Has the global food system been irrevocably hijacked? 

Or can we take back our food, heal the planet, and live sustainably? The choice is ours, but we have to start now! 

Who controls the future of your food? GMO OMG explores the systematic corporate takeover and potential loss of humanity’s most precious and ancient inheritance: seeds. Director Jeremy Seifert investigates how the loss of seed diversity and corresponding laboratory-assisted genetic alteration of food affects his young children, the health of our planet, and freedom of choice everywhere. GMO OMG follows one family’s struggle to live and eat without participating in an unhealthy, unjust, and destructive food system. In GMO OMG, the encroaching darkness of unknown health and environmental risks, chemical toxins, and food monopoly meets with the light of a growing global movement to take back what we have lost. Has the global food system been irrevocably hijacked? Is there still time to reclaim its purity, protect biodiversity, and save ourselves?

What is a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)?

The World Health Organization defines a GMO as an Organism in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally.
The most common genetically modified crops are corn, soybeans, cotton, sugar beets, Alfalfa, papaya, Zucchini, and yellow summer squash.

GMOs are in nearly 80% of all processed foods in the United States, and the most common ingredients consist of:

High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Soy Lecithin, Amino Acids, Aspartame, Ascorbic Acid, Sodium Ascorbate, Vitamin C, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Ethanol, Fla- vorings (“natural” and “artificial”), Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, Lactic Acid, Maltodextrins, Molasses, Monosodium Glutamate, Sucrose, Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP), Xanthan Gum, Vitamins, Yeast Products.

Over 60 countries, including Russia, India, and China, require labeling GMOs.

In the United States, GMOs are not labeled at the federal or state level, even though 96% of Americans polled want mandatory labeling of GMOs.