New Advances on Animal Rghts

The Article, “A Change of Heart about Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin mainly emphasizes the similarities between humans and animals and how the similarities have increased throughout the years with more advanced research. One of Rifkin’s claims is that animals are more like humans than we have previously realized. A common belief was that animals could not feel emotion, and if they could it was very slight. Modern research shows animals feel many emotions that humans do too including grief, loneliness, pain, suffering and even feel love. Rifkin also claims that Animals well being is not only inhuman to lock them up, but that it is also effecting they health. Many fast food restaurants are the ones that are funding research on animal due to the pressure from animal rights activists. Researches funded by McDonalds have found that pigs need affection and are easily depressed if left alone and denied interaction time with humans or other pigs. Researchers have also found that animals mental state can actually effect their health which could create bad meat. Rifkin uses guilt to try and persuade his reader. This is a very effective tool especially the way Rifkin uses it. Rifkin makes many comparisons of animals to humans, this makes the reader gain sympathy for the animals in the research and the ones being controlled by slaughter houses. Rifkin also uses the opposite option and proves it wrong by showing how animals feel many emotions that humans do, which is a common belief brought on in society that these animals do not feel emotion so it I okay to mistreat them as the United States has been doing.