The ad on pg. 1 vs. the ad on pg. 24

To be honest, when I looked at the cartoon on page 1 for the first time i really didn't understand what point it was trying to get across. It made me feel really stupid, because I felt it could be interpreted in many different ways. But after some thinking and a little discussion with my peers I was able to understand it. Both of these pictures are making statements about genetically enhanced foods. They are both trying to make the argument that Genetically Engineered foods are bad. On page 1, the cartoon is saying that genetically engineered food is so bad that people would not even feed it to starving people. And in the ad on page 24, it is showing under nutrition facts, that we don't need to know what we're putting in our bodies, which scares people and makes them think that there is something in there that could hurt them. In both cases, the pictures are pretty powerful, they affected me and I had no idea that this argument about genetically enhanced foods was even going on. These pictures go back to the old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. The pictures are both examples of implicit arguments that were talked about back in chapter 1.