Blog Post # 2

Eating Animals did shock me, because I had no idea what to expect when I started reading the book. I did think that all the rhetorical tools that Safran Foer were effective because they made me truly think about how our culture treats certain animals and how people hardly think about what they’re eating when they eat meat. The part that had the most impact on me was in chapter 2 when Safran Foer describes how fish are caught and killed in this country. His comparison of fish to dogs really made me think about how people, myself included, don’t really think about how the animals we eat are treated in the process. This whole chapter relies heavily on both logos and pathos, because the author asks a very logical question about why is treating fish in a horrible way in order to get food okay, but it would be thought of as inhumane to do the same thing to dogs. However, the personal nature of both the first and second chapters in this book, appeals to the audience’s sense of pathos and therefore Safran Foer can gain sympathy, or at least getting the audience to understand his point of view, which is the whole goal of these personal tales he includes.