The political cartoon is from the Copley News Service which means it is of the Public Affairs or niche Magazine articles genre. The argument it is stating is that the people who are against GE food are so crazy that they wouldn’t even feed it to a starving person. The fact that it is in a magazine that is just for free lance writers and people to discuss and give views on current events helps the argument, because it means that people with all views will be reading the magazine. The people who agree with the cartoon will let it strengthen their belief, while the people against it, will let it add more fuel to their fire and show that people are ignorant about the issue.
The picture on page 24, is from the Vegetarian Times. This is a public affairs advocacy advertisement, because it is in a specialized magazine. Its genre helps its argument because the people who will be seeing it already think in the terms that it is using. They are more likely to be persuaded by the picture ad, or they are more likely to already agree with it and let it increase their level of belief.
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I think your explainations are correct. However, I think that the Political cartoon would just make GE food supporters angry rather than start debate. WHile it could stimulate more agruements in the moderate division of readers, the hard-core GE people would probably just take offense and strike back with other cartoons. I also don't know if you felt the same but I thought it is interesting that the cartoon can provide as much emotional impact as possible, but doesn't have any real hard facts. Personally i think that's ok, as I see the cartoon as the more effective piece.
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