The U.S Justice system and sense of authority is questioned as Carson reports the farmers unjustifiable acts towards animals. Carson describes these animals misery as they were “doomed by a judge and jury” by the farmers. By applying “judge and jury” to animals, Carson personifies them, to reach a sympathetic effect. In our society, we view the death penalty as the pen-ultimate punishment of brutal convictions. However by viewing these animals as humans, the Farmer’s reached this death penalty verdict without reasoning or causality. This would be seen as extremely unreasonable and an abuse of power. On a large, imaginative scale, Carson weighs the use of pesticides vs the death of animals, as she describes it as a “unselective bludgeon of insecticidal
