A Change Of Heart About Animals Essay

What do you think about when you see animals? Do you see them as the food you eat or just plain living species? What we don’t know is what animals really mean to us. We usually see them and just think they are plain ole animals. But what we don’t know is that animals are more like us than we imagined. With that being said we should show more love and appreciate these animals more than we do now. So we should be able to set certain laws for our animals in order to treat them with a little more respect.

In the article “A Change of Heart about Animals” Rifkin states that animals feel, pain, suffer, experience stress, affection, excitement, and even love. So what does this mean to you? Do you still think they are just plain ole animals? This is something we really have to think about. These animals are more than just animals. They are humane in a different way. When I say that I mean it, these animals can learn just like we do. For example a gorilla named KoKo had learned and mastered more than …show more content…
Do you think fish feel pain? There are fishermen out there just fishing for these fish not caring about how they feel. Think about it. When a fish is out of water it’s like they are having an asthma attack without their inhaler because we don’t care. Have you ever thought that way about a fish? No, because we don’t care we just want to make that fish a meal for later. How do you think they feel when they get caught? I know this sounds bizarre but it’s true we have all these animals we see but don’t seem to find any care in the world for these fish. In the article “ Hooked on a Myth” Victoria describes that a fish's brain isn’t that different from ours. She states “...... the function of two of their forebrain areas is very similar to the mammalian amygdala and hippocampus-- areas associated with emotion, learning and memory.” How do you think about fish now? They are more like us than we think. Fish feel what we feel, all animals feel what we