Rhetorical Analysis of Visual Media

Human trafficking. Modern-day slavery. It spans across countries and continents. All of this takes on many forms and names. Ultimately, it's buying and selling human beings to perform multiple tasks spanning from sexual favors to intense labor. Multiple political cartoons are the basis for these two types of trafficking. Since I have been talking about trafficking regarding mainly women in sexual situations, I found a cartoon that explains human trafficking voicing opinions about slave labor.

This cartoon is a prime example of slave labor in America and the misinformation we tend to have about it. As seen, the producer is stunned when his customer asks tough questions about slave labor after she read a local newspaper. The producer uses marketing claims such like "pesticide free" in order to make his product more appealing, even though it was potentially not "blood-free, tears-free, and abuse-free." This leads the audience to the question of how much do we really know about the production of our food? Although America has had a less than perfect track record regarding human rights, people in general, tend to think differently about slavery nowadays. When we hear of people having absolutely no rights it disgusts us. This is exactly the point of the cartoon. It evokes an emotion to be proactive and certainly not stand for any product that have been processed under slave conditions. 

Even though it might spur a radical response in a couple of people, the main point is to make Americans think about the little things we can do to make sure we never support this type of crooked labor carried out in America or even the world.