Reading pg. 22-38 9/4/07

In this section of reading we looked at genetically modified foods, and how the media kind of sways you to go with the ideas that they are advertising. This is used to show how the advertisers want you to read this as a "Believer," also what Carl Rogers calls "Empathic listening." This basically means that you see the arument in the eyes of the author, and you see the point they are trying to get across if onlyfor a shosrt time. I think that this chapter shows good examples fo hw we use empathic listening. On pg. 1, this picture in my book shows a cartoon of a person starving on the ground reaching a bowl outward toward what supposedly looks like a typical hippie who is against genetically modified food. he is holding out a piece of corn and is saying that the person doesn't want this and is pulling this food away from a starving person, when he has no food at all. In this picture there are arrows pointing to the corn that says " Drough resistant," and another arrow points to the person saying that he is "Reason resisistant." This is just trying to be funny in a political way, while at the same time is trying to make fun of how thing are overdramatized and how we actually find these statements funny. An ad on pg. 24 is basically showing an author writing about the consequences of issues. She says in this article that genes that can come from any animal are inserted into the food that we eat to make it "gentically modified," and is kind of saying that you could be eating flounder. The result of this could be that animals could get genitcally modified food , and could carry the food to to crops and cross-polinate those crops. She is literally trying to sway us using data and the shock factor of what this could do to the environment. I think that both of these articles are a good way to get an audience's attention, and that it shows how we use empathetic listening, but how we don't show any resistance.