The Rights of Animals
In recent studies, scientists exposed that animals have feelings too. In the article “A change of heart about Animals” Jeremy Rifkin mentions how animals are similar to humans. He tried to obtain the sympathy of people about how can the animals feel and act. They have the ability of feeling same as humans and sometimes they have more feeling then the humans have, and they can feel the sadness and happiness as humans do. In addition, Rifkin was arguing that in our society people have to take more care of the animals as they take care of their child, because animals must have rights in the society too. He chooses this subject because he wanted people to stop hurting animals and let them think of treat them as human because there are a lot of animals suffering from laboratory experiment. There are many animals distress from people who take off the animal’s fur and sell it. Animals have senses too and Rifkin is claiming for the rights of them. Rifkin convinces people with his relatable examples that animals feel emotional pain, in his example he showed how animals are smart and also self-aware.
In the article “A change of heart about Animals,” there were some examples that show us animals are intelligences too. In one of the examples Rifkin said, “They feel pain, suffer and experience stress, affection, excitement and even love” (Para.2). Rifkin used this example to show people that animals can fell too and people should treat them in a good way. Since these animals share the same emotions and anxiety as humans do, then the reader can recount on a important level with these animals. Rifkin stated another example which is, “Elephants will often stand next to their dead kin for days, occasionally touching their bodies with their trunks” (Para. 11). Rifkin used this example because people believe that animals don’t hurt or understand the sense of ethics. Since people saw that elephants do sorrow over a dead kin, the reader can have...