Julio De La Cruz

Miss Salas
Rhetoric & Composition 1301
21 October 2015
Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft
The artifact that I have chosen is strictly informational text as it incorporates data
from studies and real information. Informational articles, unlike other articles, tend to
have straight-forward and unbiased information with a purpose to expose information in
order to persuade. With that being said, throughout this article the only sections that will
be written from the personal intakes of the authors would be the introduction and the
conclusion, the rest of the sections are discussing information from a source that they
have cited. This particular article will be focusing on the negative side effects that GMOs
(Genetically Modified Organism) may have when consumed. Many food companies
today produce genetically modified foods that can impose a threat to our health, and this
article will be talking about those threats with its main enforcer being the data that was
collected by testing these Genetically Modified Organisms on animals. The authors,
Artemis Dona and Ioannis Artavanitoyannis, establish their credibility since they had
studied in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology at the University of
Athens in Greece. Since the genre of this article falls upon an informational one, it
becomes difficult to find any biased opinions or commentary throughout the article since
it is strictly based off of facts from sources that they gathered.
The targeted audience seems to be the World Health Organization (WHO), an
organization that works to help improve our health and eliminate any threats to our
health. The authors purpose in writing this article could be to persuade the World Health
Organization that Genetically Modified Foods are not fully safe for people to consume.

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Miss Salas
Rhetoric & Composition 1301
21 October 2015
The testing of these genetically modified foods on animals seems to be the exigence in
this case since there are many charts with stats on the effects these foods had on the
animals in this article. The authors point out the many deficiencies animals like pigs and
rats would develop after being given the genetically modified foods.
The authors organize information by first putting the information in their own
words, and then they cite the data table or where they got that information right after they
presented it. Moreover, they have citations throughout each of their paragraphs and
citations for any information that they received from an outside source. This factual style
of information eliminates the factor of appealing to any emotion. Staying factual was a
tactic that the authors successfully incorporated in this article.
There are beliefs that Genetically Modified Foods are not dangerous because
plenty of people consume them every day and this belief might constraint the authors
from getting their point across. The consumption of Genetically Modified Foods might
not always have negative effects on people, but the authors assure that its no reason to
justify the production of them. The World Health Organization could decide that they
have bigger problems to solve than Genetically Modified Foods that only sometimes
negatively affect human beings health, but the authors claim its still a big issue since
some of the foods do contain a chemical, IGF-I, that does promote cancer, a disease that
has no definite cure and is accountable for millions of deaths. There is also a social norm
to shun anyone challenging the natural way of how everything works. The belief that

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Miss Salas
Rhetoric & Composition 1301
21 October 2015
everybody else eats these foods therefore its okay to consume them constraints the
authors main points.
The production of Genetically Modified Organisms has been active for roughly
about 22 years and it has since then shown to have negative effects on both animals that
were being tested and human beings. The authors of this article also begin talking about
how the testing on animals is cruel since it does affective them negatively more than
humans, which could be another exigence for this article. To have this going on for more
than two decades seems to be an unnecessary problem for the authors. Furthermore, the
cruel and unfair testing on animals, and the suspicious chemicals these organisms contain
along with the negative effects it also has on human beings are the reasons why the
authors wrote this.