In “The Pleasures of Eating” by Wendell Berry’s main claim is that us people should be more connected to our food. Wendell uses pathos to make the readers feel guilty, and uneducated on what they are putting into their bodies. Wendell thinks that we do not understand the full concept of food for example he says, “for them, then, food is pretty much an abstract idea” (Wendell 231). Wendell thinks that us people just view ourselves as consumers and do not care about what has been done to our food or what is actually in it. The author uses a guilty tone to make the reader feel guilty and want to change. “she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams,