Genetically Engineered Organisms: The Greatest Threat Ever to Humans and Animals

http://www.relfe.com/GMOs.html

Key Information

• Six years ago, Americans began eating genetically engineered food. Surprised? That's because no one told you. While other countries require mandatory labeling of these food ingredients, our FDA has decided we don't need to know.
• A genetically modified organism (GMO, also called "genetically engineered") is a plant, animal or microorganism (eg, bacteria) that is created by means that overcome natural boundaries. Genetic engineering involves crossing species which could not cross in nature. For example, genes from a fish have been inserted into strawberries and tomatoes.
• Why are companies spending billions on this crazy idea? Because they want to own copyrights on a genes that no one else 'owns' - so that they can make billions of dollars from them.

The purpose of this article is to convince people to not eat genetically modified foods anymore. It is obvious that the author is strongly against GMOs and is willing to put a biased article online to stop people from buying foods that were genetically modified. As far as the reader knows, the author has no positive aspects to genetically modified organisms in his article.

"GMOs: The Greatest Threat Ever to Humans and Animals." Health, Wealth & Happiness. Web. 18 M

ay 2010.

In two articles that I have found, The Good, the 'Bad, and the Ugly of GMOs and No More GMO-Free Foods?!?, there has been little success in finding something that was in favor of GMOs. For example, No More GMO-Free Foods wants foods that have GMOs in it to be labelled. How

ever, not all articles are as biased as this one or the other one that we have read before. In the Good, the 'Bad, and the Ugly of GMOs, they state the positive sides of genetically modified organisms as well as the down side of it, hence the name The Good, the 'Bad, and the Ugly of GMOs. In that article, it states that farmers do not have to work as hard to plow or maintain crops because they have been modified to withstand weather and be

ing able to survived without being plowed; it also states that companies like Monsanto are "copyrighing" the seeds they modified so farmers cannot legally keep seeds for the fol

lowing year. The first article we have read, Genetically Engineered Organisms: The Greatest Threat Ever to Humans and Animals, was very biased compared to the unbiased article.

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of GMOs - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com." Opinion - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com. Web. 20 May 2010. .

"No More GMO-free Food?! | Gather." Make Money Writing Online | Gather. Web. 20 May 2010. .

This first article was obviously biased. First of all, the title itself says that GMOs are the greatest threat EVER to humans and animals. That may seem a little bit harsh or overwhelming to think as a reader to first read that title. Secondly, the word choice is obvious that the author is attacking GMOs. For example, the article's first bullet point comes out with a harsh "hooker" (with the word "Surprised?"). However, through pictures and captions, there are no bias founded in this article. This article is extremely biased because of its word choice, tone, title, and the lack of adding positive advantages of GMOs.