Outstandingly Healthy

An article posted in a magazine that reads "More women are breast feeding their toddlers." The picture is something that one would not imagine to see in a magazine. A mother sitting at a park bench leaning over to allow her what looks to be 4 or 5 year old daughter to feed from her right breast. I wouldn't say the picture is revealing more than it was disturbing to see a child who could stand on her own while holding a banana is still being breast feed. I think the main purpose of this picture is to point out that it is becoming more and more appropriate to breast feed at later and later ages. I feel the audience of the image is mainly mothers.

Logos – apparently the breast milk is healthy, which is what the text implies by “outstandingly healthy”. Ethos – The article comes from a credible magazine. And in the article it quotes credible professors form numerous colleges who support toddler breast feeding. Pathos- Our society had made breast so highly signalized that this is shocking. Also, the fact that the child also has a solid food in one hand also makes the argument controversial with many believing that the child is too old to breast feed if she can eat a banana

I feel if i were a mother and wanted the best for my child i would consider the length in with i breast feed her. The arguments looks successful but in the end to whom ever see it and are not mothers they become uncomfortable and find them selves against toddler breastfeeding.
This is also a large social issue because our society does not condone breastfeeding in public and much less breast feeding a child that could be enrolled in kindergarten. It makes people chose between what some mothers believe to be extremely healthy for their children and what society thinks is acceptable.