A Change Of Heart About Animals Rifkin Summary

“100 Million animals are killed in U.S laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity driven experimentation, chemical, drug, food and cosmetic testing.” -peta.org. The Rifkin article discusses about the pain animals feel. According to Rifkin Animals feel the pain as if they were a human bean. Innocent animals are being killed each day just for the fun of it or for some kind product testing. He believes we ought to change the way we treat animals. The way we treat the animals has to be changed.

In the first place the way we treat animals needs to be changed because animals feel the pain they are put through. In the article hooked on a myth by Victoria Braithwaite she says “if you’ve ever felt the nip of vinegar on an open cut or the sting of a bee, you will recognize these feelings as painful. Well, fish find these naturally irritating chemicals unpleasant too.” Victoria discusses the pain fishes feel when people are fishing for them and they are using chemicals in order to capture them. Furthermore In
They are aware of what goes on around them and what is occurring to them. In the A Change of Heart about Animals Rifkin states “At the Washington National Zoo, Orangutans given mirrors explore part of their bodies they can't otherwise see, showing a sense of self.” Rifkin addresses an animal is capable of knowing what it's doing. Furthermore Rifkin states “It's commonly believed that other animals have no sense of their mortality and are unable to comprehend the concept of their own death. Animals, it appears, experience grief.” This deals with letting the reader know that no matter the situation an animal is self aware of what is going on around them. Lastly T Casey Brenham states “poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them it's life itself”. T Casey Brennan pointed out how self aware an animal is to try and protect their own