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1.Scully makes numerous points in the essay about why the issue of animal cruelty in farming should be a conservative issue. One of the statements that stood out most strongly to me was the idea that a Smithfield Foods executive told Scully that "it's for their own good", a statement Scully refutes by making a comparison to that of a fetus being aborted. If the conservative movement does not agree with abortion, there is no real reason that they can morally agree with the torture of animals in farming, so that statement really stuck with me.

2. I think that Scully means that reason and morality are what we as humans claim set us apart from animals in this world- without our morality and reason, we are no different from the animals. Because we have them, it should be our job to treat the animals with the same kind of compassion that we as humans receive from one another. I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. Many animals have no control over their food sources or where they live, and because they can't control it doesn't mean that they should be subjected to terrible living conditions. As moral and reasonable humans, it should be our obligation to protect the animals for the time that they are alive.