Eating Animals Is Making Us Sick By Foer

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English 1301 Final Paper April 25th, 2011 The essay, “Eating Animals is Making us Sick” by Jonathan Safran Foer is an essay describing in detail the ill effects of factory farming. The author describes how the factory farming of animals has caused illness to humans in the past. The author also warns the audience that continuation of this process will result in more devastating illness in the future. The author hopes to make the audience aware of the horrors of factory farming and to hopefully inspire the audience to do something about the situation. Jonathan Safran Foer successfully argues that factory farmed animals are detrimental to the health of humans and also to the environment of the planet. The author is able to accomplish this by effectively using both pathos and logos based arguments. Jonathan Safran Foer aims this essay towards all meat eating humans. More specifically the author intends the essay towards American parents. Foer specifically mention problems in the United States throughout the essay. Foer uses a statistic that states, “76 million cases of food-borne illness the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated happen in America each year” (2). The author is trying to emphasize that the problem is local and directly affects the audience. Foer also goes on to state that, “ Until I became a father and faced the prospect of having to make food choices on someone else’s behalf, there was no urgency to get to the bottom of things” (1). The “things” the author mentions is the growing problem of factory farming and what the Author is stating her is that parents need to heed special attention because not only do parents make decisions for themselves but also for their children. Jonathan Safran Foer successfully argues that the use of factory farms is both hazardous to the audiences health and is a sever form of animal

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