Philip Wollen, Australian philanthropist and former VP of Citibank, emerged from his usually low-key persona on May 16, 2012 to deliver a powerful, widely received message on animal's rights. Recognizing the detrimental effects the meat industry causes in the environment and economy, as well as the affect it has on the overall health of the nation, Wollen ends his silence and speaks up against factory farming, giving a voice to those who do not have one.
Beginning his speech, Wollen alludes to King Lear and the concept of seeing the world "feelingly," questioning, "shouldn't we all?" Wollen makes an effort to trigger the audience's brains, using ethos to question how we see the world. Diving into his argument, Wollen's tone is steady and valiant as he uses pathos to urge those involved in the meat industry, whether producers or consumers, to halt the business empire that supports animal cruelty, "because tonight they are screaming in terror in the slaughterhouse, in crates, and in cages. Vile ignoble gulags of despair." His use of pathos and imagery attacks the audience's emotions, while vividly projecting the audience into the inhumane slaughter …show more content…
And I realized I had heard these screams before, in the slaughterhouse-" to compare an evil and indiscriminate disease such as cancer, to the barbaric act of …show more content…
Medicare has already bankrupted the US. They will need $8 trillion invested in Treasury bills just to pay the interest. It has precisely zero!! They could shut every school, army, navy, air force, and Marines, the FBI and CIA – and they still won’t be able to pay for it. Cornell and Harvard say’s that the optimum amount of meat for a healthy diet is precisely ZERO. Water is the new oil. Nations will soon be going to war for it. Underground aquifers that took millions of years to fill are running dry. It takes 50,000 liters of water to produce one kilo of
Beginning his speech, Wollen alludes to King Lear and the concept of seeing the world "feelingly," questioning, "shouldn't we all?" Wollen makes an effort to trigger the audience's brains, using ethos to question how we see the world. Diving into his argument, Wollen's tone is steady and valiant as he uses pathos to urge those involved in the meat industry, whether producers or consumers, to halt the business empire that supports animal cruelty, "because tonight they are screaming in terror in the slaughterhouse, in crates, and in cages. Vile ignoble gulags of despair." His use of pathos and imagery attacks the audience's emotions, while vividly projecting the audience into the inhumane slaughter …show more content…
And I realized I had heard these screams before, in the slaughterhouse-" to compare an evil and indiscriminate disease such as cancer, to the barbaric act of …show more content…
Medicare has already bankrupted the US. They will need $8 trillion invested in Treasury bills just to pay the interest. It has precisely zero!! They could shut every school, army, navy, air force, and Marines, the FBI and CIA – and they still won’t be able to pay for it. Cornell and Harvard say’s that the optimum amount of meat for a healthy diet is precisely ZERO. Water is the new oil. Nations will soon be going to war for it. Underground aquifers that took millions of years to fill are running dry. It takes 50,000 liters of water to produce one kilo of