Sunday, March 2, 2014

Within Safran Foer's novel, he takes much time to describe in great detail how indeed the animals are processed in order for us to consume. He uses extremely manipulative language to paint a picture of total destruction and pain for such little birds, describing the processing as brutally as possible. He cruelly describes the process, yet he also does not mention that sometimes, doing some of those things can make it more sanitary for food consumption. A lot of those types of meats come with harmful types of bacterias which could cause our food to become extremely unhealthy, and could even lead to such bacterial ailments such as E. Coli, among others. In doing so, he falls into a logical fallacy of appealing too much to the emotions of average people, creating feelings of disgust and frustration within his intended audience. However, he does not mention the millions of acts initiated in order to reduce the amounts of food-borne illness in order to make it safer for food consumption. Safran Foer manipulates us into believing  that the food industry has complete disregard for what exactly we end up consuming, when only part of that may be true. His use of emotional language causes us to melt, and his descriptive language toys with our feelings of compassion in dealing with the animals, however, it's important to note that the people who do such things to our meat only do as such in order to make sure that the meat is indeed safe for consumption. Mentioning obscure diseases with only a small chance of being caught doesn't really add much to his cause.

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