Cartoon vs. Ad

The cartoon and the ad both have different arguments. I feel like the cartoon with the hippie and the starving person is showing the side of which thinks that it is ok for us to eat the food. I feel the ad with the can that says “ingredients- none of your business” is for the side that believes GE (genetically enhanced) foods are not ok.

The ad and cartoon have to completely different genres of making you understand their point. The cartoon’s genre is comedy. It’s a comical drawing. You look at it and see an overweight hippie wearing buttons saying “NO FRANKEN FOODS” GLOBALIZTION” and a button with the peace sing (an upside down y in a circle). The hippie has a piece of corn in his hand that has “drought resistant” and then “reason resistant” pointing at the hippie. On top of all of this he is telling a starving person, that’s so skinny you can their ribs, “you don’t want this (corn), its genetically enhanced.” To me this was funny. This hippie won’t feed a starving person just because it was a piece of GE corn. The idea that this cartoon is trying to get across is that people that resist GE foods are hippies. Not only are they hippies but hippies are reason resistant and they wouldn’t feed a hungry person GE food. This cartoon is very negative towards the people who believe GE food is bad. Their intelligence, look, and thought process was insulted by this picture. I feel like the artist was trying to draw you onto his side by making the other side seem stupid and funny in their beliefs. This reminds me of the drawings the Nazi’s used against the Jews, demeaning their look and intelligence.

The ad on the other hand is a very serious concept. The picture of the can without ingredients but instead a note saying it’s none of your business makes you think, “what if that were real?” “What if I picked up a can and I didn’t know the ingredients?” “Would I even buy it?” All of these are valid questions that I would assume most people would think of if the picked up a can of corn and saw that same label that was on the fake can. This ad is trying to get their point across by showing you their perspective on the matter. They do this without bashing and degrading the opposing side. I feel that in most cases the more serious diplomatic approach is better, so I like the can ad more so than the cartoon.