Monday, October 10, 2011

Fear Factories #1

In Fear Factories by Matthew Scully, his support for getting the animal cruelty movement backed by a conservative cause is best summed up by the statement, "We need our conservative vaule voters to get behind a Humane Farming Act so that we can all quit averting our eyes. The basis of Scully's argument is around the negatives of animal cruelty in the factory farming system coupled with the basic value that consertives are turning there head to it and ignoring it because of the corporate side of it and also because they believe humans come first, animals come second. That statement to a certain degree is true but as Scully says, "they don't follow their own thought to its moral conclusion". Scully goes on to say how far do we want to see all of the industries and technological advances go before a change is made with animal treatment. The most telling statement Scully makes on conseratives having a twisted sense on the subject and on why they need to not turn their heads is when he speaks about the review of Dominion. All the conservatives said how awful a business factory farming was and a "betrayal of human responsibility. It statements like these that should show the conservatives a public policy or law of some sorts should be put in place.  

1 comment:

  1. I think your really summed up well what Scully was trying to get across. The quotes you used exemplified his ideas and it was a good way to make everything come together.

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