Rhetorical Analysis Of Food Inc By Robert Kenner

In 1987, IBP (Iowa Beef Processors) fined 2.6 million dollars to a Dakota City Plant for underreporting injuries, then another 31 million for a high rate of cumulative trauma injuries. The book spoke of the dangers and the “behind the scenes” event behind the making of fast food, such as the process of the food and workers undergo. Eric Schlosser spoke about fast food, showing us what we’re really eating and the tragedies behind the closed doors of the slaughter houses. The book explains fast food in another sense. He wrote the book because he wanted to inform the reader of the reality of fast food and the way the workers put their lives on the line. In Fast Food Nation, Schlosser’s purpose is to get the word about the terror in the fast food industry as demonstrated by his use of rhetorical strategies such as, repetition, figurative language, and pathos.

Fast food industry not only causes illness for people but also create problems to American agriculture since “The fast food chains now stand atop a huge food-industrial complex that has gained control of American agriculture.” (Schlosser). The fast foods companies need to purchase a vast of the agriculture products such as potatoes or cattle, and so they create corporate farms to provide products to their demands. Famer and cattle ranchers are being replaced by giant agribusiness companies which take over their lands. The independent famers are vanishing, and the gap between a small amount of wealthy elites and the large numbers of the working poor is getting bigger. When the fast foods companies control a vast of agriculture products, they also control prices of those products, which has driven down the prices and benefits that are offered to American farmers. According to Eric Scholosser, Nation Magazine Award winner, “In 1980, about thirty-seven cents of every consumer dollar spent on food went to the farmer. Today, only twenty-three cents goes to the farmer -

Throughout the book, Foer allows the narrative to bear witness, including multiple testimonials from factory farm insiders and officials all touting animal suffering, in addition to statements from small farmers, whom he glorifies and commends. In doing so, he provides readers insight into what he portrays as the factory farm and industrial food industry. He builds what little credibility he can by providing multiple perspectives on different aspects of both factory and family farms as well as slaughterhouse operations. Foer even goes so far as to detail his endeavor with an animal rights activist in infiltrating a corporate turkey farm illegally. He describes the horrific sight found inside one of the barns and the “rescue” his cohort conducted by slicing one of the turkeys’ neck. He justifies his and the activist’s actions by citing California penal code 597e, which protects those providing

We do not take in consideration on where our meat comes from and how they treat the animals. People do not know how the process is from slaughtering a cow to the meat that you buy in your neighborhood market. In the book Foodopoly, Wenonah Hauter argues that there is a misrepresentation on what truly happens in the meatpacking industry, hog industry, the impact on small farmers, and how the working conditions are for the meat packing industry workers.

Throughout the text, the writers for Vegan Outreach quote well-known sources including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, which they focus on to persuade the reader to trust them. However, if the reader were to actually pay attention to the content of the words rather than the popularity of the newspaper, they would recognize that the statements throughout the New York Times are purely conjecture as opposed to the informative content for which they are searching. As declared, “[o]ur own worst nightmares . . . are also real life for the billions of animals unlucky enough to have been born beneath these grim steel roofs, into the brief, pitiless life of a ‘production unit’” (4). This quote is said to have come from the New York Times, though it does not suggest any concrete facts, rather it states appalling things that are happening to farm animals without evidence.

Collaborating with best-selling authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma), Kenner takes a meat cleaver to the billion-dollar food industry, jumping--sometimes pell-mell--from bean growers and chicken ranchers to the local grocery store. The family farm is fast going the way of old MacDonald, devoured by over-mechanized, unsustainable factory farms serving up a diet that may be hazardous to your health.

For centuries, man has relied on animals for clothing, food, and transportation. However, the recent increase in technological advancements has been accompanied by a rise of animal consumption. Currently, the average person consumes an exceptional amount of meat each year. In order to compensate for this, an overwhelming amount of changes has enveloped the meat industry. Animals aren’t raised, they are manufactured. Eric Schlosser, the author of “Fast Food Nation” uses imagery, understatements, and short sentences when describing his visit to a meat packing plant to develop his argument against the inhumaneness of the meat industry.

To eat or not to eat, is that really the question? One devoted rancher/essayist, Linda Hasselstrom, confronts this very idea in her essay from the book, 80 Readings for Composition. The piece was written in 1991, titled “The Cow versus the Animal Rights Activist,” during a time when ranchers and the meat industry were under fire by both animal activists for the inhumane treatment of cattle and by environmentalists for the immense amounts of energy waste and pollution. Hasselstrom uses pertinent substance, though sometimes bias, to shed light on the misconceptions about ranchers and their place in the cattle industry. She aims to unite the concerns of the activists on the side of the ranchers so they can work together

The movie “Food Inc.” is a documentary created to shed light on the topic of industrialized farming of crops and animals. The video shows many scenes that display the poor methods of industrialized farming as well as the harsh conditions the animals have to endure while they are being farmed. This video however also takes a political standpoint on the topic and expresses many opinions on the matter. The movie is also filled with recent facts and statistics on the industry and compares them to how the food business used to be. “Food Inc.” also provides first-hand accounts of how farmers are affected and the types of techniques that giant corporations are imposing.

When looking into the inner workings of the food industry one can establish a precedent centered around the idea that big business should make up the food industry. This notion is presented front and center through the use of the movie Food Inc.directed by Robert Kenner. Kenner establishes in the film that large multinational corporations control the food industry. They do it through force however, and place a cloak over what is truly happening. People as both the consumers but also the growers themselves are being covered and threatened by and from the truth. They work to establish the lack of stature these people can take against them using power as a means to succeed. The film itself uses a the structure of ethos, pathos, and lagos to establish the relevance this has on our daily lives. Ethos established in the film a sense of credibility to the message being pursued by the people pursuing it. Pathos works to bring in our emotions to establish a sense of everything from sadness towards the animals to the unfair treatment towards farmers. Lastly logos is established in the citing of defined facts as well as bringing in hard evidence to support

Food Inc. : A Rhetorical Analysis Food Inc., a documentary film produced by Robert Kenner and based on Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation, is designed to inform the American people of the food industry’s sinister side. The film paints the food industry in a more realistic light than the advertised and perceived image of an “Agrarian America.” Food Inc. not only uses compelling images, such as hundreds of baby chickens being raised in spaces no larger than a desk drawer, but also includes the voices and stories of farmers, businessmen and women, government officials, and victims of the food industry. As the film is being played, the audience sees the horrors and immorality of the food industry, feels disgust towards the unethical greed for wealth over safety of customers, shares in the helplessness of oppressed farmers, workers, and animals, finally feeling a sense of hope at the end where the film tells the audience they can vote for safer, better foods with what they decide to buy. Food Inc. effectively intertwines visual elements along with commentary, forging an ominous and foreboding image of the food industry that is furthered by its audio track and expert testimonies, creating a potent warning to the American consumer of the darker side within the food industry. In the opening moments of the film, images of corn and wheat fields spanning acres of land, along with a cattle rancher riding his horse among a magnificent grassy landscape surrounded by trees, are

Farms Owner, Joel Salatin, regards society's continuous demand of specific wants from grown food, "fatter and cheaper" chickens and meat from cows, but they're not too eager in knowing what goes in those animals to achieve the demand. While Salatin uses some logos, providing information facts about the process the food industry goes through in order to achieve food companies' standards, Salatin makes better use of ethos as he provides us the portrayal of cows consuming self-sufficient grass; their manure goes to the grass and they eat the grass. He completes his ethos statements by providing a USDA reference, when USDA threatened to shut them down because of the unsanitary-open air shelter they're using to process chickens.

The curiosity behind American food production has become an increasing topic as foodborne illness and the obesity epidemic is getting worse. The film “Food Inc.” exposes the truth behind the intentionally hidden food industry in America. According to filmmaker, Robert Kenner, the issue moved its way from the fast food industry straight into the supermarket. The underlying reason is rapid growth of fast food restaurants like McDonald’s. These companies desired large suppliers to provide them with products that tasted exactly the same, which changed the way that beef was produced. This allowed a handful of companies to gain control over the food supply and makes its way to the supermarket. The increasingly dominant food companies in America are disregarding societal needs and are acting in unethical ways toward animals and their employees.

The documentary film Food, Inc. provides a critical look at the industrialized nature of our country’s food supply. It explores the relationship between how our food is produced and exposes the horrors and immorality of the food industry. The film highlights different topics regarding the mass production of corn, the treatment of the animals and the workers, the health consequences. food safety issues, and how big corporations have control over the food industry because they oversee everything from the farmer to the supermarket The first section of the film covered how a handful of companies have changed what we eat and how we make our food. Thr whole industrial food system began with fast food in the1930s and the concept of drive in restaurants,

Sally Kohn feels the new age hipsters that ask for organic, humanely treated burgers, never think about the workers caring for the fair treated animal from which their burger came from. She sets a scenario were a customer asked a waitress about the wellbeing of the chicken on the menu, but not the farmers caring for the chicken going on to say, “… the characters in the sketch never ask, ‘Does the poultry workers who killed the chicken get paid sick days?’” (214). Those same people infuriated over the inhumane life style of animals, rarely even think of the inhumane working conditions the caregivers are offered. Animals care givers aren’t the only underappreciated food workers, food servers are also in these category. Many of today’s food service