Ad and Cartoon

The ad is against genetic altering of foods. The cartoon is for it. The ad uses scare tactics like printing disturbing answers on the picture of the can. It states clearly what it thinks is wrong with biotech foods and orders us to take action. It’s an ad which means that its purpose is to interest and enlist people in it. It this time is taking action for labeling of genetically modified foods. The cartoon pokes fun i.e. mocks people. It shows a large self-righteous hippie withholding a fat ear of corn from a starving poor man. The hippie, who represents those opponents of biotech foods, is using his stand on the issue to prevent people from eating foods that might potentially be bad for you. But the catoonist is showing that the good of such foods can outweigh the bad; in this instance the starving man would much rather have biotech food than starve to death. The cartoon mocks the fallacies of the opposing side; the ad highlights the dangers of the issue and asks for action.