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Essay / Six Legged Meat Analysis of the Future - 1201
An example is “For example, pigs and humans are similar enough that they may share many diseases” (Dicke and Van Huis 345). The authors create a hasty generalization error by concluding that because humans and pigs are similar, they share diseases. Additionally, the audience feels lost because the authors do not provide evidence of how “pigs and humans are similar” (Dicke and Van Huis 345). Likewise, the author states that “because insects are so different from us, these risks are therefore reduced” (Dicke and Van Huis 345). Again, the author fails to make a connection between how the risk of getting an infection is reduced because humans and insects are different. The authors also create an error of hasty generalization because they conclude that humans' risk of infection is reduced simply because insects and humans are different. In summary, using fallacies without providing evidence and makes readers feel