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Change Of Heart About Animals 'By Jeremy Rifkin' Hooked On A Myth

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Bill of Rights for Animals

Animals may not reason, talk but they can forsure suffer. In the articles, “A Change of Heart About Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin “Hooked on a Myth,” by Victoria Braithwaite, both authors attempt to persuade us that we should enforce a bill of rights for animals. Therefore, the human race have to be obligated to not pass those limits for animals and their rights, because animals are vulnerable and defenseless. They are so similar to us, humans, so shouldn't they be treated with the same rights we have? Why do they have to be discriminated because their called animals? Animals feel pain, suffer, affection, excitement and even love. They're beautiful creatures who should be appreciated and taken care of instead …show more content…

Many just think empathy is an emotion only humans can show, but many animals express empathy for each other and in different ways. Which is just another characteristic animals and humans have. There was a story that i read about how elephants rescuing a blind lady. Simon Worrall a freelance journalist and author, addresses on it by explaining what happened. Worrall mentions(16),“ an old woman who couldn’t see well, got lost and was found the next day with elephants guarding her. They had encased her in sort of a cage of branches to protect her from hyenas.” To me that extraordinary not because the elephant managed to keep her safe. It was because the elephants had no idea who she was and what she was doing there but yet they took care of her just how parents would do for their child. Its incredible how animals don’t see the difference between us and them, however we do. We are so busy to find out which animals are cabable to experiment on but we don't have the time to even notice how elephants can experience sadness and grief too. According to Jeremy Rifkin(11)states, “scientists believed that other animals have no sense of mortality and are unable to comprehend the concept of their own death”. “Not necessarily so...Elephants will often stand next to their dead kin for days, touching their bodies with their trunks.” We do the same thing when our loved ones pass away. We sit there in their funeral, cry and reminisce on all those good moments you had with him/her. It's just a matter of time when you start to realize that animals aren't that different from

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