Fear Factories

In Fear Factories, Mathew Scully writes on the way that conservatives are able to turn their heads to the cruelty towards animals in today’s society. He starts by introducing a book he has written on the subject, and then gives all the examples of how animals are treated from being killed for their bile to being hunted online, and then dives into his reasoning for why conservatives today “don’t care.” Scully believes that people do not want to know how these animals are treated so that they will not feel remorse for the animals. Scully uses pathos to try to pull the reader in by saying "they lie covered in their own urine and excrement, with broken legs from trying to escape or just to turn, covered with festering sores, tumors, ulcers, lesions.” He continues to make his examples worse and ends the article talking of how people are now trying to clone the animals by tampering with their genes in order to recreate them. In the end Scully concludes by saying if humans can not accomplish something without hurting themselves or other beings on earth then why would we do it at all? This again appeals towards a person’s pathos and makes them think about why we would inflict this pain on the animals because we would not do it to our own kind.