Animal Rights Michael Pollan Analysis

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The appearance of various right movements resulted in giving full specter of rights to millions of people and erased cultural confusion and tensions existed earlier. But the animal right movement faced us with another sort of cultural confusion. Some animal right activists believe that animals should be given more rights as creatures which can’t protect themselves.

The arguments which the author brought to our attention were about how to treat the animals. In the beginning of his essay Michael Pollan provides examples with pigs/meat and dogs which get Christmas gifts. He questions here the difference in our attitude to animals. The author made us think about the animals with different destinies. Basically he wanted us to look

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