They are more like us than we imagined…” these words written by Jeremy Rifkin in his article “A Change of Heart about Animals,” emphasize that like us humans, animals feel pain as well. Equivalently, Rifkin insists on the point that we need to change our ways in which we treat animals or in other words limit ourselves to a certain level of fair treatment with them. Alike us, they feel pain and suffer in many ways in cause of our actions towards them and it is not fair for an animal to be attacked this way by us humans when they as well are living their own lives and are already trying to survive themselves. In support of this, I am with Jeremy Rifkin and agree that our actions towards animals need either a change or limit. Researchers have found that animals feel pain, suffer, experience stress, affection, excitement and even love. Jeremy Rifkin states that pigs crave affection and easily depressed, if isolated or denied playtime with each other. Being denied to have playtime hurts pigs, we could only imagine their pain when they are locked up for days in the dark with no type of company. The treatment they are being given is nothing like the treatment we would want to get from someone else. With that being said, …show more content…
Their level of intelligence is at a really high place and are 99% of the time underestimated because they are animals. Brian chemistry of rats show that when they play, their brains release large amounts of dopamine, which is a neurochemical associated with pleasure and excitement in human beings. As noted, some animals have a high knowledge in many areas, for example in “A Change of Hearts about Animals” they state that a gorilla had been taught how to use sign language which most humans can't/won’t do. It also came out that their IQ test were between 70 and 95. Not only is this taught to animals, but they also have self awareness themselves and taught other skills on top of