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A Rhetorical Analysis Of GMO OMG By Jeremy Seifert

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“Today in the United States, by the simple acts of feeding ourselves, we are unwittingly participating in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings.” Jeremy Seifert certainly knows how to get viewers’ attention, as exemplified by the film blurb describing his 2013 documentary, GMO OMG. The frightening depiction of the food industry is one of many efforts to expose consumers of the twenty-first century to the powerful organizations that profit from national ignorance and lack of critical inquiry and involvement. Seifert effectively harnesses the elements of rhetoric throughout his phenomenal argument against remaining complacent about the food industry’s act of withholding of information about genetically modified organisms from …show more content…

A powerful example of pathos is exhibited in the scene in which Seifert takes his sons to a cornfield to run and play among the rows and rows of vegetation like he had when he was a child. Viewers are swept into the nostalgia of older and simpler times only to become horrified to see Seifert take out gas masks, body suits, and duct tape and begin covering his kids from head to toe. Dressed in apparel fit for a nuclear or radiation site, Seifert and the boys run through the genetically modified field, protected from the pesticide and herbicide the plants are saturated in. This scene sends a striking message of the threat GMO’s pose to the memory of natural farming and food …show more content…

Seifert calls upon individuals to seek and inquire about the food they consume. Seifert hadn’t simply “Googled” information offered on the internet and leave it at that, he took steps to seek answers to the question no one want to acknowledge. His journey is one students taking argumentation or critical thinking courses can take important lessons in patience, persistence and perseverance from. If students do not make efforts to be informed about the world they live in, they relinquish their rights as consumers to the major companies that are powerful adversaries, even at the state and federal

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