FUCKGMS

Know your seeds. Eat real food.

Who owns the seeds, what gets sprayed on them, and what ends up on your plate. Fast facts with receipts.

Start hereGrow a seed, meet the soil, play the sorting game
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Quick Facts60-second cards. Tap to flip.
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Deep DiveMechanisms, studies, data, citations
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KILL-ALL RESIDUE · ×400 SPRAYED
What's on your food

Your food gets sprayed. A lot.

U.S. farms use about a billion pounds of pesticides every year. Residue turns up on many conventional fruits and vegetables. Most samples test under the legal limit, but legal isn't the same as clean. EPA USDA PDP

EPA estimates roughly 1.1 billion lbs of pesticide active ingredient were used in the U.S. in 2012. USDA's Pesticide Data Program finds detectable residues on a majority of conventional produce samples each year, with most below EPA tolerances. EPA USDA PDP

See what's on your food

Start here

From seed to plate

Scroll down and watch the seed grow.

1A seed takes a napEvery seed holds a baby plant and a packed lunch. It waits in the dirt until the time is right.
2Rain and sun wake it upWater soaks in. The seed cracks open and a tiny root pushes down while a shoot reaches up.
3Roots make friendsWorms dig tunnels. Tiny helpers called microbes trade food with the roots. Healthy dirt is full of life.
4Leaves catch sunshineLeaves turn sunlight, air, and water into plant food. Scientists call this photosynthesis.
5Food for youThe plant makes fruit full of seeds. You eat the fruit, save the seeds, and plant them again next year.
×1000 · SOIL LIFE

Healthy dirt vs. sick dirt

Healthy soil is alive. A single teaspoon can hold 100 million to 1 billion bacteria, plus worms and fungi that feed the plant. NRCS

Sorting game: which crops are usually GMO in the U.S.?

Tap a food, then tap the box it belongs in.

Quick Facts · tap a card to flip it

60 seconds. Receipts included.

Each card carries an evidence grade. Strong means scientists broadly agree. Mixed means studies point different ways. Debated means expert bodies disagree.

Deep Dive

Go as deep as you want

Plain summary on top. Open the layers for the mechanism, the evidence, and the citations.

ZOOM ×400 VACUOLE · WATER NUCLEUS · HOLDS THE DNA CELL WALL CHLOROPLAST INSERTED GENE A T G C BASE PAIRS · A–T · G–C
How a GMO is made

1. The plant

Interactive · monoculture vs. diversity

One crop, one weakness

Release the pest to see how far it spreads.

Uniform fields let one pest or disease run wall to wall. In 1970, Southern corn leaf blight wiped out about 15% of the U.S. corn crop because most hybrids shared the same vulnerable trait. Ullstrup 1972

Simulation: the pest spreads to adjacent plants of the same species only. A teaching model, not an epidemiological one.

Interactive · who owns the seeds

Six giants became four

Between 2015 and 2019, a wave of mergers folded the "Big Six" seed and chemical firms into four. Several of them sell both the herbicide-tolerant seed and the herbicide. IPES-Food

Interactive · label decoder

What does the label actually mean?

Eat Clean

Real food, step by step

You don't have to be perfect. Start with whole foods and work out from there.

Shop smart

  • Buy whole fruits and vegetables. Very few fresh items in U.S. stores are genetically engineered.
  • Choose USDA Organic for corn, soy, canola, and sugar products. Organic rules ban genetic engineering. USDA NOP
  • Cut back on ultra-processed snacks and drinks.

Where GE crops hide in packaged food:

corn syrupcornstarchsoybean oilsoy lecithincanola oilcottonseed oilsugar (beet)maltodextrin

Find local farms

  • Ask growers how they farm. Most will tell you.
  • USDA Local Food Directories lists farmers markets, CSAs, and on-farm stores.
  • LocalHarvest maps small farms and CSAs.
  • In Kansas City, start at City Market in the River Market.

Save seeds

  • Grow open-pollinated or heirloom varieties. Their seeds grow true to type next year.
  • Hybrid (F1) seeds won't reliably repeat, and patented seeds can't legally be replanted. Bowman v. Monsanto
  • Seed Savers Exchange preserves and shares heirloom seed.

Grow your own

  • Start small: herbs, lettuce, radishes, and bush beans grow fast in pots.
  • Feed the soil with compost. Living soil grows stronger plants.
  • Plant mixed beds instead of single rows. Diversity confuses pests.
Take Action

Do something this week

Spend $10 at a farmers market

Money that goes straight to a grower keeps diverse farms in business.

Read one label out loud

Check a box of cereal or a bottle of oil for the "bioengineered" disclosure or a QR code. Show someone what you found.

Comment on a federal rule

The EPA and USDA take public comments on pesticide and labeling rules at regulations.gov. Search "glyphosate" or "bioengineered."

Plant one thing

A pot of basil counts. Save its seeds at the end of the season.

Share a card

Send a Quick Fact to a friend. Keep the source link attached.

Get one fact a week

A short email with one sourced fact and one thing to do about it.

Brand kit

The mark

The O is the logo: a crossed-out DNA strand inside a ring, with a leaf breaking out of it. It works on its own as an icon, a patch, or a hat.

Primary · light
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One line · red
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Kid-safe · Kid Mode

Soil Black
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Field Paper
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Tomato Red
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Seed Green
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Sun Yellow
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Clay
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Sky
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Big Shoulders DisplayHeadlines · logo
Atkinson HyperlegibleBody text
FredokaKid Mode
JetBrains MonoData · labels
Merch · first drop concepts

Wear the message

Tap the color dots to try each garment. Print-ready files come next.

Sources

The receipts

Every chip on this site points here. Research current through mid-2026. Recheck figures before launch.