Food Inc.
      Method of persuasion is the process of guiding oneself or another toward the adoption of an idea, attitude, or action by rational and symbolic means.   This related to the movie because it’s trying to make you look within your food, also making better choices in food.   In Food Inc. Robert Kenner created a convincing argument that you should beware and know what you eat. It shows you where the food you and I eat at the grocery store and how its processed. You might not ever want to buy meat again.
      In the video, they had many chicken houses and as you walked in you saw that the chickens were all bigger than what they were supposed to be. Because they were bigger they could not support themselves on their legs so they died. The chicken producers injected hormones into the chickens just so they can get more meat in less time. They don’t care about the chickens, just about the money they are making from it. Also they had factories where there were machines that killed chickens.   This enhances the argument that we have to kill living things for us to eat but since we can’t satisfy for a normal sized chicken we have to give them special food so they grow and that can result in mutations and diseases.   There were many slaughter houses in America and now there is only thirteen you could see how they would kill the cow if it wasn’t in good health.   This shows at one point there was a recall on meat because one diseased cow had spread to others and weren’t be able to stop it because all the cows are processed together.
      When the three year olds mother, Barbara Kowalcyk, was explaining what had happened to her son, she had a shaky voice wanting to cry because she said it was so hard to see her son beg for water when he couldn’t drink any while in the hospital.   This showed how the government didn’t do much about it so she had to step up and be a speaker for all the ones that had members of their family die of E-coli or anything else that was in the... [continues]

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