Week 6 post

                One logical fallacy that is portrayed in Eating Animals, chapter five, is the appeal to authority. This fallacy is based on that because an authority thinks something, it must therefore be true. This is used when Safran Foer claims that “the USDA has an informal policy to avoid saying that we should ‘eat less’ of any food no matter how damaging its health impact may be” just because that’s what “Nestle argues” (147). Therefore, because Nestle thinks this is the case, then it must be true and “we have let the food industry craft our national nutrition policy” (147). Safran Foer provides no other evidence of this being true besides that it is what Nestle has claimed, which isn’t sufficient enough to support his argument. He does not have enough proof that the USDA has this informal policy, making his logic weak.