The Pleasure Of Eating Wendell Berry Summary

Every day there is something new to learn and remember. Having a busy life can make it hard to focus in things that really matter, for instead where did the chicken came from? “Wendell Berry describes the importance of understanding the connection between eating and the land in order to extract pleasure from our food.” (“The pleasure of eating”). “The pleasure of eating” an essay from “What are People for?” publish in 1990 by Wendell Berry. Wendell writes in verity ways of ethos and logos, pathos, including examples to connect with reader and give the reader a better idea, of how society is not involve with the origins of what they are taking home for dinner, due to their busy lives they have. Wendell Berry starts with ethos, by expressing how …show more content…
Our kitchens and other eating places more and more resemble filling stations, as our homes more and more resemble motels.”(Wendell) Berry Wendell is describing how politics, esthetics and ethics and adds it all together in a way the reader can reflected to the idea of how horribly low things are getting , relating food to industrial sex, makes the reader realize they don’t take the time to care about paying attention where food comes . “We hurry through our meals to go to work and hurry through our work in order to "recreate" ourselves in the evenings and on weekends and vacations. And then we hurry, with the greatest possible speed and noise and violence, through our recreation — for what? To eat the billionth hamburger at some fast-food joint hell-bent on increasing the "quality" of our life?” In addition to pathos he uses ethos to connect the reader to his idea. He does a great job describing the reader, illustrating the way they live, how fast they live. . Connecting them to his thesis by using simple realistic facts as an excuse of why the readers are forgetting to pay more attention about what they are putting on their