Natural History Of The Chicken Analysis

In the documentary, The Natural History of the Chicken, written and directed by Mark Lewis and produced by PBS, Lewis wants to show viewers that chickens are perceived differently by many and are not only entrées. Through a series of personal experiences and events, Lewis portrays the variety of roles chickens play in the lives of Americans.
By showing the chicken farms, Lewis shows ethos and credibility because he actually shows that the information he is giving is true. It is sad when the little chicks are shown falling off the conveyor belt as if they are just objects or commodities and not living, breathing creatures. When the workers just grab them and push their heads against the metal to be vaccinated, they just throw them back onto the
Anyone would try their best, if possible, to save a friend’s life. Another example is, in Maple Spring Farm, Virginia, Joseph Martinez, a farmer, explains how he raises his own chickens and eats them to be closer to the whole cycle of the food chain. He feels that chickens have a sort of energy which brings life to the farm. Martinez feels that he has a special kind of connection with them by raising them, but is not hindered by the fact that he is going to have to eventually kill them to eat them. Some people might agree with Martinez’s thoughts about chickens because they might not think about chickens emotionally, but more on a worldly level and realize that that is just the way things work. In addition, in Oxford, Ohio, neighbors complained about how one man collected over one hundred roosters and the amount of noise that was produced completely disrupted the lives of the neighborhood. One man said, “I’d just crawl with a gun over there and start takin’ em out one by one.” To Bobby Wayne Webb, raising a rooster from the time when it is a chick is like a raising a child to him. He thinks the crowing is a lovely sound. Though he disrupted a neighborhood and got sued, his