Poor, Unnecessary, and Unbalanced
Factory farms are designed for the highest output with the lowest cost to the operator which can result in housing more than 125,000 animals under one roof (“Ending Factory Farming”). Factory farming a large spread industry that has become a widespread issue in the United States. This issue has emerged due to cruelty to animals. However, there are copious solutions to this extensive issue. A few of these solutions are vegans who refrain from eating meat, and people who try to make a change in the way factory farming is practiced. Mathew Scully, previous speechwriter for President George W. Bush, wrote the essay “Fear Factories: The Case for Compassionate Conservation—For Animals” is both a vegan and a person…show more content… Scully writes about how the factory farms keep the animals. He not only describes the pens’ metal bars and concrete floors, but also the animals themselves. Scully writes, “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, or what my guide shrugged off as the routine ‘pus pockets.’” (160). He continues on describing how the animals are being treated. These describes how Scully effectively used pathos to pull at the emotions of his readers. This is to convince the reader of the problem’s factory farming causes and inflicts onto animals. Scully also directed at his readers of the American Conservative, due to the fact that the American Conservative is widely open to articles about Christianity. Scully made it one of his main points in his argument that “The writer B.R. Myers remarked in The Atlantic, ‘research could prove that cows love Jesus...’" (164). This is clarified throughout the article directed towards Scully’s audience of Christians. Scully also remarked throughout his essay, the ways Christianity can support his
