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Scully addresses that many conservatives take the stand of not wanting to know about factory farming. He says that the subject of cruelty to animals, especially in factory farming, crosses the barrier into forbidden territory for conservatives. He addresses that most conservatives take the mindset of "I don't want to know" mindset because they feel they have no responsibility to the issue, but that if asked most would say it was a cowardly and disgraceful act.  Scully reiterates thorughout his esasy that people should be kind to all animals, he even quotes Proverbs that "a righteous man regardeth the life of his beast" and continues still with examples of what people do to animals and how the violation of the animals "rights" are held in a court of law.  He illustrates the conservatives as money hungry people who care only about what can be counted in dollars and they that always back someone that can make money off of any animal related industry.  Scully believes that conservatives just dismiss the subject of animal curelty because he percepts them as having the view that where animals were concerned nothing serious could be at stake.  He says later that all of the conservatives that review his book admited that factory farming was a "wretched business and a betrayal of human responsibility." Scully closes with how the voters with conservative values are needed to get behind a Humane Farming Act so that factory farmed animals can have what they deserve; a merciful life and a merciful death. Scully mainly uses the morality of the subject to support his case and uses many stories to back his ideas on how cruelty to domestic animals is not that different form cruelty to farmed animals.