Only now are Americans waking up to the fact that an estimated 75% of our processed foods contain some form of genetically modified (GM) ingredients.Frankly as a US citizen, I feel scammed and outraged that I have been made an unwilling particip..... Full Story »
Posted by Lauren Santoro
The beginning of the article discusses what is going on with the courts and discussion of genetically modified foods, however, halfway through, there is a major turn to the personal beliefs and arguments of the author. The article is clearly biased, although it gives very good reason and plenty of fact to be so.
Can you imagine them sitting behind their ivory tower/power structures, laughing like Count Dracula from Sesame Street counting the cookies of cash the “Monsanto Monster” left behind?
This is just ridiculous. This is far too imaginative and persuasive to be considered part of a “news” article.
In the Fall 2009 semester at SBU, I wrote a research paper on genetically modified organisms, and took the stance of saying that it was a human rights violation. I went into the paper not knowing anything, and developed this viewpoint through the my research. While I agree with the author on how genetically modified food is bad, I think she could have used less bias in her writing. See the quotes for an example.