The source opens up with commentary on the movie “Fed Up” featuring charts, data, and four obese individuals showing how sugar is causing sickness. Portraying how the food industry is putting sugar in everything as the author says “Sugar is the new tobacco” (Robert Kiener). Although the author is a freelance writer I didn’t find bias in his article but only facts. Additionally the author goes onto a range of topics concerning unhealthy food such as food coloring, pesticides, and fast food.. Continuing with that theme he shows how America is attempting to pursue a healthier lifestyle and showed …show more content…
GMO foods are shown to have health detriments such as cancer so it should be labeled, on the other hand it’s not a product that the FDA doesn’t require labeling of biotechnology. The author is a journalist that has been honored by the Washington, D.C. and other publications. He doesn’t seem to show bias at all which made it difficult for me to decipher what side he was taking in the article he wrote. The audience are those who are interested in health and GMOs is a large part of this, whether they can be for it or against it. I thought the article was interesting and detailed proving that GMOs are very bad for consumption and they skirt around the issues that their GMO food has done. I found this article as a related article to “Should Government Regular Unhealthy …show more content…
Author and Journalist David H. Freedman seems biased towards GMOs because of the large benefit of making large crops. The background and audience would be a more scientific background and it even the source seems to be from a scientific magazine “Scientific American”. The author thought that GMOs regardless of the health risks that are not proven scientifically that it’s good to continue the GMO food crops. I found the source on Ebsco Academic Search by using search terms "GMO foods" and "Health risks".
Fitz, Don. "Controlling Science." Opposing Viewpoints. N.p., 10 Oct. 2014. Web. 16 Oct. 2015.
This article is about the suppression of the dangers of GMO research because of GMO foods for example causing tumors in rats. The author whom taught psychology seems heavily biased against GMO research because he believes it’s a plan to replace small farmers with mega farms which produce a much more expensive product. The audience of the author would be those who are opposed to GMO research so he would meet little opposition. The author is very thorough and thought provoking in showing us how terrible the industry is in trying to get us to eat their product despite its detriment to our health all for the sake of money. I found this article by searching for “GMO foods” and “Health risks” on Opposing