Fast Food Nation Rhetorical Analysis

Eric Schlosser’s outlook on fast food is negative. Schlosser argues that fast food and fast food chains are the reason behind obesity in America, as well as health issues. He backs up his argument against fast food by spending over two years traveling around the world researching why he believes fast food only leads to negative affects, and then he writes about it in his book, Fast Food Nation. Schlosser emphasizes throughout the book that fast food industry has contributed to changes in urban life, and has impacted American culture for the worse. Eric Schlosser’s attentive analyzations and his effective use of persuasion using logos, ethos and pathos convinces the reader about the fast foods negative impact on the economy and society. Schlosser's use of these three rhetorical devices helps the reader understand how strong his views are on fast food, and just how passionate he feels on sharing another, better perspective,

In the first few chapters of the novel Schlosser take the logos path. He does this by giving numbers and statistics on how much an average American will spend on fast food a year. “In 1970, Americans spent about $6
Ethos was found primarily in the beginning when he tells about how fast food helped the expansion of the U.S., and how if there had not been fast food the Americas known today would be different for the better and the worst. When he gave these facts, they did create a counter argument for his argument, but he kept them in line by talking about them as if they had two paths as well. His use of Ethos is kept short, but he still does show the reader he has done the research capable of knowing both ends of fast food, and in doing so he keeps the reader's trust that his information is not truly an