Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

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EXERCISE

Making a caseWho do you think should win the court case in the following

scenario? Give reasons to support your answer.

Dream Ice Cream, a small natural foods company, makes organic ice cream products. To ensure

its image as a “natural” food company, Dream Ice Cream advertises that it does not use milk

containing genetically engineered hormones, and it includes this information on its labels.

The government passes a law forbidding advertising that directly or indirectly opposes GE

products, and Dream Ice Cream is ordered to remove all labels from its products or pay a

heavy ine.

Dream Ice Cream decides to take its case to court and argues that it has the right to

advertise that its products are safe. The government’s regulatory agency argues that GE

products have not been proven unsafe and that Dream Ice Cream is guilty of unfair

advertising.

Bibliography

Ho, Mae-Wan, and Lim Li Ching, GMO Free: Exposing the Hazards of Biotechnology to Ensure the

Integrity of Our Food Supply (Ridgeield, CT: Vital Health Publishing, 2004).

Huf, Ethan A., “Organic groups, farmers ile preemptive lawsuit against Monsanto to protect

themselves from inevitable destruction by GMOs” (Natural News.com, 2011), http://www

.naturalnews.com/031922_Monsanto_lawsuit.html.

Human Genome Project Information, “Genetically Modiied Foods and Organisms,” http://www

.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/gmfood.shtml.

Marshall, Elizabeth, High-Tech Harvest: A Look at Genetically Engineered Foods (New York: Frank-

lin Watts, 1999).