In “A Change of Heart about Animals,” Jeremy Rifkin asserts, “[Animals] feel pain, suffer and experience stress, affection, excitement and even love.” Not necessarily so. Is there any evidence that animals mourn on the death of other animals, or party at birth of new animals? Do they live with their partners or family if animals experience affection and love? Rifkin makes a bold claim that pigs need social(human) contact because they are easily depressed if isolated, but he doesn’t support it scientifically. According to Science, “Only individuals of same species makes up a population.” If this is true and scientifically valid for habitation on planet, then how come humans can take pigs out of depression? Even though animals
