Monday, May 17, 2004

News..........focus

This morning on my standby headline news I saw a report on the ooh scary gmos. The report focused on how to avoid eating these demon products. The problem with the report wasn't the information given, but the assumption that a gmo is "bad". This is the kind of thing that makes me go wild mad. Instead of information I got a shopping guide - "buy certified organic." This is precisely the kind of reporting that all the folks concerned with liberal and conservative bias have issue with, though not with this kind of article. Furthurmore it's not only not informative, but not interesting. More pertinent to the topic would be how, if we as consumers deem that we don't want gmos (the real danger is not to the consumer in the short run (ie medical reasons) but danger to the food supply, loss of diversity in the organisms that produce food for us) then we as consumers have the power to show our choice by not buying products that contain those components. The writing assumes too much and the premise is biased; these people are supposed to be professionals(or maybe I'm asking too much from a cable news networt?).

Over,
Erasmus

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