Credibility

The site that I found to be the most credible/reliable would have to be the tinyurl one. The reason I chose this one would be because it is a scholarly article that is written by an author with a PhD. The author has no reason to have a bias for or against genetically modified organisms. The article was written with intent to educate and not persuade in any way. It is a very clear article that is mostly up to date but not certainly. The order of the next two sites was much more difficult. Personally, I would not say that either of them are very reliable. If I had to put them in order, I would have to say that saynotogmos would be next reliable and in last place would be monsanto. The deciding factor for me on these two was the fact that monsanto is a .com vs. the .org. Although they both have a serious bias, monsanto is trying to sell their product. Marketing can really skew information to make it more appealing. Monsanto's website was created by people that work for monsanto and with the intent to make their product look as positive and appealing as possible to their potential clientele. They only mention the good things about genetically modified organisms without addressing that there are adverse affects from their product. Although the saynotogmos is not a .com and isn't trying to sell anything, I believe they really are trying to sell something. They aretrying to sell their idea. The page was created by volunteers in Texas. That tells us that just about anybody could have volunteered and written whatever they wanted on there. That doesn't come across as reliable to me. There is a clear message to stop GMO's, so it is clear what their intent is. Also it appears that they are targeting the general public which also concerns me. If they are just trying to get anybody to jump on the bandwagon, they might just say whatever it takes. I have never had any issues with eating genetically modified foods. I have been eating them unknowingly for as long as I remember. To my knowledge, I haven't suffered from any illnesses due to the genetically modified foods thus far, so why should I be concerned? I feel like any ill-affects that they may have, our bodies have adapted to and built a tolerance against them. The only reason I could come up with for the USA to not want to label the GMO's on foods, was just being afraid to change the status quo. Since the sticker has never been on products before, it will alarm people when they start seeing it on things. Being that our country is corporately run, they don't label them so that their sales won't suffer.

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