h authors, as an argumentative technique, try to appeal to our sensitivity, even though they use it both to different degrees. The core of David Suzuki's perennial cries for help, in this essay more specifically, is the underlining of the pain humanity can inflict on animals. Through the use of different anecdotes, he explains how far we have gone in taking advantage of animals. He tells us about the time he went fishing in the Catskills Mountains of New York state, where you are under the obligation to throw back the fish you catch, and how fish he caught had their "mouths gouged and pocked by previous encounters with hooks." Such vivid and gruesome images are given throughout his testimony. He does not hesitate to recall, in an almost Disney-like fashion, personal examples of instances when animals we've traditionally seen as friendly and vulnerable, have suffered: "The squirrel began to cry" or "...seized the fingers of their liberators and clung to them as our babies would to us." Furthermore, in that last quote, cited by Mr Suzuki, but originally from the mythical and well-liked chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall, he was blatantly soliciting our natural attachment and instinctive propensity to protect babies.
As for Frederic King, to convince us of the benefits of experimental research on an
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