Coffrin immediately starts off saying animals are tortured and abused, and in many are used in repetitive research that is unnecessary. Coffrin states how the bible places humans above animals in terms of superiority, and that they are not afforded the same blessings from God that man are given. The author also brings up the social idea of the food chain that is used to justify our superiority over animals. While these examples may give us the natural right to consume animals for food, it does not justify humans to treat animals however they please. Aquinas and Kant both have a similar idea of animals being there to serve humans. Kant reasons animals serve simply as a mean to an end. Bentham argued that the interest of an animal need to be
