A writer can relate to their audience in different ways, one of them can be pathos. Pathos are using an emotional connection with the audience to better relate to. Michael Pollan’s pathos in The Omnivores Dilemma are shown in several forms such as, dreadful and peaceful descriptions between the industrial farming and the grass-fed farming. As Pollan is arguing quality over quantity when it comes to the meat that we eat by describing his experience going to the farms and what goes on between the two farming styles. Pollan starts with him going to an industrial farm with a veterinarian. Pollan described the farm as, “Then there’s the deep pile of manure on which I stand, in which 534 sleeps” (81). Here Pollan is describing the life-style of the cows that live in industrial farms. This leaves the reader feeling dreadful and feeling uncomfortable reading about the cows sleeping closely together in their own feces. Pollan goes on further with his experience at the farm with, “We don’t know much about the hormones in it- where they will end up or what they might do one they get there- but we do know something about the bacteria, which can find their way from the manure on the ground to his hide and from there into our hamburgers” (81). This drives his quality over …show more content…
Here Pollan tells of his experience here versus the industrial farm such as, “Up on the green, green shoulder of hill rising to the west I could see a small herd of cattle grazing, and, below them on gentler slope, several dozen portable chicken pens marching formation down the meadow” (124). Pollan describes a more relaxed and peaceful describing the grass-fed farm life-style. Here Pollan paints the picture of happy cows outside doing natural cow behavior, which is appealing to the reader compared to having cows crammed together and being pumped with