Fast Food Rhetorical Analysis

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heavily footnoted and annotated. It states the history of fast food industry. His explose reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of america and a alternate gap between the rich and the poor. He showed how fast food has conquered appetite and landscape. While writing this book Schlosser used many rhetorical strategies. 3 of his main strategies are logos, ethos, and pathos. Schlosser appeals to logos throughout the entire novel. Schlosser presents numerous statistics and information concerning injury rates, pay, employees in the fast food business, etc. This allows Schlosser to explain to the reader how the fast food industry got started as well as its’ negative effects it can have on our health and our lifestyle. “The average American ate three hamburgers a week... children between the ages of seven and thirteen ate …show more content…
assumed the mantle of leadership on the issue of food... unpopular..." (Pg. 209). Schlosser uses a great deal of stories that really appeal to emotion which serve to show the unfortunate situations or events that come with the fast food industry when it comes to pathos. He starts by using sympathy towards the lower class workers for you to feel bad for them as well as some readers can relate “lack of full-time employment, receive no benefits, learn few skills, exercise little control over the workplace... float job to job" (Pg. 6) Schlosser appeals to the readers fear of rejection or of losing something important, no matter how hard you try to obtain it. Again, as i have stated before this shows the corruption within the slaughterhouse business and why it is frowned upon. "They take whatever you give them, and then, if there's a better offer, leave you hanging and move on to the next best deal." (Pg. 164). Finally to conclude Schlosser uses imagery to help paint a picture for the reader to