In “Breaking the Meat Myth,” Freston attempts to convince her audience that consuming animal protein is detrimental to human health. Although most vegetarian diets (if followed accurately) are very healthy, eating a meat-based diet is not necessarily as deteriorating as it suggests. Freston quotes Dr. William C. Roberts, editor of the American Journal of Cardiology, on the subject of saturated fat and cholesterol. He states: “When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us…” (Freston). This statement, however, is an example of oversimplification and an appeal to bathos, referring to the power of death. In reality, there are a variety of factors that contribute to an individual's overall health and the consumption of animal products in itself has not been scientifically shown to cause death. Kathy Freston also includes a quote from Dr. Neal Barnard,