It states that international companies are gradually driving farmers off their land in many countries, that monoculture farming might lead to global dependence of the human race on food corporations, and that there is an increased risk of ecological disasters caused by a reduction of biological diversity.

[8] Variety wrote that the film "is a disturbing—if somewhat bland and partisan—study of agribusiness' aggressive push for genetically-modified food,"[4] and expressed "it's a shame writer-director Deborah Koons Garcia opts to show only one side of the argument".

[11] San Francisco Chronicle wrote the filmmaker "has taken a complex subject and made it digestible for anyone who cares about what they put into their stomachs," but also noted that "Monsanto will attack Garcia's documentary as a piece of unbalanced journalism".

[12] New York Post called the film "enlightening", noting it "takes dead aim at genetically altered food, [by] arguing that grocery shelves are filled with potentially dangerous items.

"[3] Seattle Times noted that the film used "every propagandist trick in the book",[14] supported by "foreboding background music",[14] and a "relentlessly downbeat tone and gloom-and-doom hand-wringing over the way corporate greed is poisoning the globe"[14] to force their point across, and wrote "Most of us have some awareness about the debate over genetically engineered food.