Fear Factories

John Waggett

Mrs. Mikhaylova

English 102

10/11/11

“Fear Factories”

            In Scully’s article describing his book he conveys a strong, formal, and structured argument against animal cruelty and how it should become a conservative cause and not only a liberal pity party.

            Scully begins his essay by sting what her believes in regard to the subject. Scully states how animal problems should not have to suffer due to the nation’s ongoing struggle between conservatives and left wing liberals, and that to a moral sense we are all the same under God. He then turns to a broader sense of the topic in which he begins to bring general and ethical morals into the equation. Ethos and pathos are greatly used by the author in order to draw the reader more into the argument. Scully tries to get the reader not only to sympathize with the animal but the people who are trying to protect the animals. His argument then becomes more specific when he starts talking about the actual process or how some animals are gruesomely murdered at these slaughter houses, and how inhumane that process has become. \On an ethical level it is wrong, and something should be done to control this at the very least. Scully does an impressive job of going from a general view to a more specific way of arguing his cause. Finally, after going into detail, Scully then returns to the larger sense of the problem and how it is a human’s moral obligation to not only their fellow man but to all the animals of which inhabit this world, and that human’s need to either control this very soon before it gets too out of hand or just stop the process completely.