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Monsanto Food Violence

Background Information
This propaganda activates the emotion of fear by likening GMO consumption to suicide. The message is that eating genetically modified food products is dangerous, scary, and hopeless. The scarecrow and the barren field further imply hopelessness.
Technique Used
Activate Emotion
This is propaganda because
This image is a piece of anti-Monsanto, anti-GMO propaganda. It's creator is unknown, but it was found on a blog titled "Dregs of the Future" in a post created on April 26, 2013.

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    John Doe
    Tue, 03/03/2020 - 23:13
    John Doe
    Most of the food we eat is geneticly modifyed in some way. And even most of the heavely modifyed food aren't unhealthy
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    Tes Gautreau
    Tue, 11/03/2026 - 16:01
    Tes Gautreau
    I find this propaganda to be harmful. We should be teaching healthy eating habits that don't demonize a certain kind of food because that can lead to disordered eating. Is eating GMOs necessarily the best thing? Maybe not. But demonizing it will do more harm than good.

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