A Change Of Heart About Animals Analysis

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Animals are not human. However close they may be, that is up to biology, but the fact still remains that animals are not human.
In “A Change of Heart about Animals,” Jeremy Rifkin says that science has discovered that animals “feel pain, suffer and experience stress, affection, excitement and even love – and these findings are changing how we view animals.” (15) My question is: who? Whose view on animals is changing? Personally, I thought that everyone knew that most, if not all, living creatures could feel emotions. They may not be quite as complex as ours, but they are the same nonetheless.
I am curious as to why the government in Germany is encouraging pig farmers to give each pig 20 seconds of human contact everyday. (15) If the farm has

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