GMO OMG

Jeremy Seifert, Josh Kunau, Jill Latiano Howerton | 2013 | 84 min.

2014 Official Selection

Who controls the future of your food? GMO OMG explores the systematic corporatetakeover and potential loss of humanity’s most precious and ancientinheritance: seeds. Director Jeremy Seifert investigates how loss of seeddiversity and corresponding laboratory assisted genetic alteration of foodaffects his young children, the health of our planet, and freedom of choiceeverywhere. GMO OMG follows one family’s struggle to live and eat withoutparticipating in an unhealthy, unjust, and destructive food system. In GMOOMG, the encroaching darkness of unknown health and environmental risks,chemical toxins, and food monopoly meets with the light of a growing globalmovement to take back what we have lost. Has the global food system beenirrevocably hijacked? Is there still time to reclaim its purity, protect biodiversityand save ourselves?