GMO OMG: Film Analysis

The film GMO OMG I feel is a film that everyone should watch because it introduces its viewers to the truth about the food that we eat on a daily basis. In the beginning of the film, we meet Jeremy Seifert and his family who live in North Carolina with their children. His concern for GMO’s began when he realized that he and his wife now have other lives to take care of and that here in the United States people live in ignorance when it comes to what a GMO is. A GMO as Jeremy described, are organisms in which the genetic material has been altered in a way that doesn’t occur naturally. The food that we eat here in the United States is made up of two types of GMOs, one is a pesticide producer and the other is a herbicide resister. Corn, a vegetable …show more content…
One of the things that I can relate to that is mentioned in the film is the fact that not much valuable information is found on the topic of GMOS. Most studies in the United States regarding GMOs are analyzed for only three months and are not peer reviewed. When we look at the way in which other countries like Haiti have responded to what Monsanto is doing to nature, you realize that it is completely immoral. Nature is what makes up the building blocks for a strong healthy life and if humans “toy around” with it than we are destroying life itself. It is also immoral that only a select group of people have access to healthy non-GMO food while the rest of humanity has to eat food that is contaminated with so many harmful chemicals. The cost of organic food is so high now in days in the United States that people are forced to buy food of lower quality standards because it is all they can afford. It definitely concerns me that the farmers who grow our food think that it is ok to see our food supply as some type of scientific experiment and are gambling the life of our future generations away. I think that not only do consumers need to take the time to learn about the companies that have created a