In the age of FB and internet communications, we are almost like farmers of social media. We all have our own fields to tend with our own yields of produce. It’s not always as visible as traditional pubs and diners, but this brave new world of ours allows us to introduce different kinds of ideas into the field of dialogue. With the tools we have now it’s a lot easier to give reference to the articles, images, and videos we see online and then use them solicit an audience in a neutral and general way without seeming to push our products on anyone and everyone in earshot of us all the time. However, once the information hits the market, we can also be like grocery store consumers in the way we are disconnected from the process of how the produce was developed and brought to the market. In many cases the process is an innocent one, with conversations about sports or the weather, but every now and then we have to deal with people who use growth hormones and inject controversy into the mix. It is not always easy to tell if you are eating their produce either, because farmers are not required to label their GMO material. Clearly, in obvious cases you may be able to tell if a farmer is trying to stir his market share, but in others it can be hard to tell if the subject matter has been laced with GM material (possibly meant for a select few) because the products hitting the market generally do not look any different from anything else. With this being the case, it can be easy for any suspecting customer to pounce upon innocent products when the consumer is the only one left to sift through all of the potential background associations that don’t get labeled. The producer in question may have a reputation for developing junk foods, for instance, or may even be associated with other farmers who use the stuff. It’s hard to rule out the possibility, and when a genuinely innocent remark comes along, our consumer may end getting lost in a junk yard of imagination before he realizes it. All the time that they spend junkyard may even end up convincing them of all the associations they make. As a result, the customer could end up forcing the situation they hope to avoid by injecting their own suspecting junk into the mix. We have to realize that consuming artificial products is just as bad for our health as it is for the animal that it is being injected into. The process is often slow and we often do not notice how cumulative consumption of junk foods can have lasting side effects, but we need to become more acquainted with the way in which information is propagated so that we can be better equipped to tell the difference between a healthy life of moderation and one of being addiction to the junk. https://youtube/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 05:28:14 +0000