A Change Of Heart About Animals Summary

In his article “A Change of Heart about Animals,” Rifkin points out that “ they feel pain, suffer, and experience stress, affection, excitement and even love--- and these findings are changing how we view animals.” Currently people are treating animals with disrespect by abusing , eating them , and slaughtering them. Rifkins point of view is to catch people's attention to change their attitude towards animal abuse so that we can think twice about animal cruelty. He states that animals have the similar intelligence as us human beings. I agree with Rifkins point of view for the fact that we need to change the way we treat animals because they’re similar to us human beings.

In the first place , animals cannot verbally communicate their pain. Dogs may bark so that people can notice behaviour change. Animals rely on humans to observe , recognize their pain and to evaluate its severity and impact. For example when animals feel pain they sense to have an expression on their face or either make a noise that catches people's attention. They have the same reaction as a human being when their hurt , make noise or show face expression. For instance, when I see a dog limping , I obviously know he/she is feeling some type of pain. The fact I would know the dog is feeling pain is because he can't use

Currently people are treating animals with disrespect by abusing , eating , and slaughtering them. In his article “ A Change of about Animals,” Rifkin points out that “ they feel pain , suffer , and experience stress , affection , excitement and even love--- and these findings are changing how we view animals.” In the article “ A Change of Heart about animals,” Rifkin points out that “ they feel pain , suffer , and experience stress , affection , excitement and even love--- and these findings are changing how we view