A Change Of Heart About Animals Summary

Dr. Tom Regan emphasizes that “The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart form their utility to us.” In the article “A Change of Heart about Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin deals with the way we view animals. It also deals with the fact that they are more like us then we want to believe. So, should we be treating animals the way we do? From my point of view I would have to agree with Rifkin on the fact that animals are more like us then we want to believe and on the fact that we should be treating them differently. First, I personally have seen it first hand and it’s true these animals are like us humans in a lot of ways. A few years back I had two dogs one was the father the other being the daughter, one day I woke up and she was dead. I lie to you not her father seemed to be crying just laying next to her and he just laid down sad for about 2 weeks he didn’t want to do anything at all. On the movie Blackfish there’s a part in the

In the article “Hooked on a Myth” Victoria Braithwaite states that “Incredibly, no one ever seems to have asked before whether fish have nociceptors around their mouths. My colleagues and I in Edinburgh, Scotland, recently looked in trout and found that they do.” Their is a 300 pound Gorilla named Koko who is currently at the Gorilla Foundation in Northern, California, who has learned more than 1,000 signs of sign language. Also, he understands a few thousand words in english and who on a human IQ comes in around 70 to 95. There’s also been so many videos on YouTube and on social media of animals showing that they’re smart and showing that they know when something isn’t right. For example, there’s a video going viral on social media of an elephant attempting to save a man who he thinks is