Summary Of A Change Of Heart About Animals By Jeremy Rifkin

In “A Change of Heart about Animals” Jeremy Rifkin States,
Letter to the Editor

In the article you published called “A Change of Heart about Animals,” Jeremy Rifkin states “Many of our fellow creatures are more like us than we had ever imagined.”. I agree and believe society should be more involved into the way we do things that involves animals. We need to be more aware about the animals and that they have feelings and emotions too and we should not be taking advantage of that. Rifkin stated a lot of good points and arguments. I honestly do not agree we should end all animals deaths, but I do believe there should be an awareness against animal cruelty.

As one who has had pets of my own, I believe that we do take advantage of pets sometimes

and we do not take into consideration that animals have feelings too, and I think Rifkins statements were really insightful and powerful to me. For example, when Rifkin told the story about the elephants was really emotional and really hit me hard with how the elephants have mourned over the dead animal. Like Rifkin I believe that animals have feelings just like we do, in the article Rifkin talks about koko the monkey, koko is a very smart monkey and show emotion as a human would. And as well as the parrot, have some cognitive skills that can be adapted within them just like the parrot experiment proved.

Rifkin informs the public of his scientific discoveries to prove his claim that animals have many of the same emotional responses, conceptual abilities, and similarities in anatomy in comparison to humans. He supports it by providing examples like Koko the gorilla who has the ability to comprehend American Sign Language and also the English language which was very remarkable to know.

Rifkin's article was very informative and I really agreed with many of the points that were made and it is really well to know that someone is proving evidence in that animals have skills that human does as well and we shouldn’t change that. However, I feel if he was more appealing to emotion and got the word out more, he would definitely be able to start a big change that doesn’t take up a lot of time.