Vegetarian Is the New Prius

"The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of it's diseases is called man."  (- Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher) Everyone is looking for a cure, for a fix to mend our quickly deteriorating world. In the following few paragraphs we will discuss the comparison between a couple articles discussing just that; a mend to our decaying world. The first article titled Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It delves into the idea of tab water vs. bottle water. Elizabeth Royte compares and contrasts the benefits of both sides of the argument. She talks about the surprising negative aspects of bottled water which begs the question, "Is bottled water truly less of a risk then tap?"  In the second article titled Vegetarian Is the New Prius, Kathy Freston discusses the new discovery of the immense global impact that livestock has on our environment. She makes the reader ask the question, "Should we be more focused on our fuel usage or our livestock sector in terms of the environment?"  Both articles do a great job of making the reader think but the rhetoric of Freston's Vegetarian Is the New Prius  is more convincing in terms of rhetoric.

A very important aspect of a good rhetorical analysis is the concept of Logos. The logos is vastly different in the two articles only driving the wedge deeper and pushing Freston's article to be the superior one when it comes to rhetoric. Freston uses great reasoning and logic to back up her claims. She states, "With warnings about global warming reaching feverish levels, many are having second thought about all those cars. It seems they should instead be worrying about the chickens." and then she follows that claim up with solid evidence "Last month, the United Nations published a report on livestock and the environment wish a stunning conclusion: 'The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors