Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Blog #7

After examining the three sites I have concluded all of them to be different from one another. Two of them reaching opposite spectrums on the GMO debate, while the third remains neutral and provides unbiased information on the subject.

For the first url, located at Monsanto.com, they create GMO's therefor supporting them. The article was posted by the site, was updated this year, and no specific author was named. It appears the intended audience is targeted at those who are interested in GMO's and also possibly those who remain neutral, attempting to try and pull those people in.

When I opened the third link, located at saynotogmos.org, I deduced they are against any GM foods. Also, if we were to have GMO's, they are for labeling all of them. This article, which is actually the home page, is updated monthly and has no specific author. The audience they are trying to reach is those who support labeling as well as those who are neutral about the issue.

Finally, the second url, located at nature.com/scitable, was the better of the three sites because the author is unbiased about the issue. The article was posted in 2008 by Theresa Phillips. You cannot contact her directly but the site does have an "Ask an expert" option as welll as a "contact us" list(which is the cased for the other two sites as well.) Ii feel her target audience is the entire population of those concerned with the GMO issue.

I don't have many concerns with gentically modified foods however I do wish to be informed about these foods. There should be no reason why these foods should not be labeled GMO's. It's just like putting nutrition facts on foods. Everything that goes into my food products I Persoanlly want to know.

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*Katesposito. "Pros and Cons of GMO's." Lovetoknow.com. Web. 2010