You Don't Have To Be Smart To Eat Them

Summary:

            The visual by Khalil Bendib is basically stating how the United States doesn’t make it necessary for food companies to label foods with GMOs and the people are oblivious to what they are eating.  It also brings up the fact on how people in Europe are aware of what their food has and get to decide whether they’d like to eat it or not.

Analysis:

            The visual makes claim on how people in America don’t really know what they’re eating and are oblivious to what their foods are made of due to food companies not labeling them. The three men represent Americans who don’t know any better and don’t really question the food. The misspellings in their dialogue help to further assert the claim of how it’s better to be “dumb” in order to eat the engineered food.  The corn present on the plate with the label “Cattle Grade” indicates on how the corn isn’t truly corn but is made with something else. The bird helps to bring in light of how Europeans are aware of what their foods consist of because of food labeling and get to have a decision of whether they’d like to consume a certain food product or not. Bendibs overall argument is that America should start having food companies label foods with GMOs because the people have a right to know of what they’re eating.  He also expresses the fact that people aren’t smart enough to question of where their food comes from which is bad for them and the country as a whole. He tries to argue that it’s important for people to be “highly educated” as they are in Europe.

 Bendib, Khalil. "Engineered Foods." OtherWords. 2011. Web. 06 Mar. 2016. <http://otherwords.org/engineered-food-cartoon/>.