Kimberly Huynh Hazlewood English 101-14 11 November 2014 Long Paper #3: Rhetorical Analysis – Eating Animals In Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, Eating Animals, he discusses vegetarianism as well as what actually happens in the meat industry. Eating Animals offers an argument against animal cruelty. He informs the reader through his novel in hopes of guiding us to make an educated decision on whether or not we should eat meat. In order for Foer to write his book, he visited factory farms in order to present his arguments and ideas. Foer builds and establishes his own credibility through his personal research, as well as employs the use of logic and emotional appeal to convince his audience that something must be done in order to fix our broken system of food production. Foer argues that those who eat meat are extensively …show more content…
Foer presents his arguments in great detail through his descriptions of the slaughterhouses and factory farms. He predicts the industrial food production will end. He includes in his argument that those who do not participate in ending it will be guilty of choosing animal cruelty. Foer argues that what we choose to eat matters, not just for our personal health, but also to the core of who we are as human beings. He points out that the food choices we make will influence our children or grandchildren’s eating habits. Foer uses Aristotle’s appeals: ethos, logos, and pathos to building a convincing argument against eating animals. Foer employs Aristotle’s ethos in the sixth chapter, “Slices of Paradise/Pieces of Shit.” He does so by providing facts, statistics, and personal encounters to factory farmers. He exposes