Animals In 'The Enigma Of Animal Suffering'

In the article “A Change of Heart about Animals” (1 September 2003), published by Los Angeles Times, author Jeremy Rifkin discusses how “... researchers are finding [is] that many of our fellow creatures are more like us than we imagined.” (Rifkin 61). Using academic diction, Rifkin develops his main idea with evidence such as “They [animals] feel pain, suffer, and experience stress, affection, excitement, and even love -- and these findings are changing how we view animals. ”(Rifkin 61). This suggests a pathos and logos persuasive appeal that broadens the reader’s understanding and knowledge in changing our perspective of the inhumane and inequality treatment that non domestic animals receive. Rifkin’s use of pathos and logos appeals is to

Did you know that over fifty-six billion farm animals are killed every year by humans? In an excerpt from Animal Farm, the author inspects the emotions and opinions of farm animals that experience oppression from humans. George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm, uses figurative language and diction to show the narrator's feelings towards the harsh treatment and abuse animals face throughout the story.

In the article “A Change of Heart About Animals”, Rifkin asserts that humans are treating animals in the most atrocious way, and he claims that in order for their lives to improve, we need to definitely adjust ours. He uses great amount of logos, and several experiments done with different animals and tries his best to closely relate animals to us, humans. Rifkin although, never inserts a call for action to this problem throughout his article. Instead, he puts the emphasis on the pathos of the argument. In the world we are living in today, there is about 8.7 million different living species. Whether they are land or marine animals, they do play a big role in our community such as being apart of the food pyramid, assisting handicapped people wherever they go, or being a transportation for people living on farms and fields. With this being said, the ranking of animals in our community has brought up a heated argument in connection to their rights and welfare. Eight legged, four legged, or two legged land or sea animals do not comprehend the concept of rights. If we, humans, give animals “rights”, we are basically inferring the fact that we are like animals, and they have the entitlement to share our rights. Although they don’t understand rights, the fact that many of these animals are being treated inhumanely is wrong and animal welfare should be ingrained into this community rather than the massive inhumane treatment.

Participating in the discussions made me understand more about the topics and articles. I was able to see other people’s perspectives on the readings and the topics in general. Some people had more knowledge of the topics and they were able to give more information. Also, people could support their points by incorporating and linking other topics in the courses to discussions. This made me to be more observant and try to think and focus harder.

ear Editor, In the article published “A Change of Heart About Animals.” In there, the author Jeremy Rifkin states that “ [Animals] they feel pain, suffer and experience stress, affection, excitement, and even love- these findings are changing how we view animals.” I agree with this pretty bold statement and I feel like many parts of society are very neglecting towards animals and how they are treated, there needs to be a change. Like Rifkin said, many animals in our daily lives are like people in more ways than one.

This causes readers to relate to an experience or to feel a certain way about the topic. McWilliams does an excellent job at capturing the readers thoughts by using ideas and examples that appeals to the reader's emotions. To describe the struggle for organic farms in the attempt to grow their animals within today's economy, he allows the readers to understand that point of view. For many Americans who are trying to take care of their families, it's really difficult to put dinner on the table with low paying jobs. For these organic farms, it's just as bad, healthy animal feed that organic farms feed their animals are expensive, that's why eating healthier foods are overpriced as well. Because of our economic struggle, Americans resort to fast foods typically because it's cheaper and they think about feeding their family first before the health benefits. So do confinement operations, they use antibiotics and inexpensive unhealthier food options for their animals to save money and make a profit. We live in a society that typically relies on money to live. Appealing to reader's emotions, McWilliams also let's readers think about the way they want the organic farms to treat animals. Organic farms are known to let their animals grow naturally without restrictions however, he discusses a problematic issue that organic farms do strip the animals away of their dignity and natural instincts (par. 5). In other words,

Norcross argues that the analogy is similar to factory farming because in both situations the animals are being intensely tortured. They are tortured by living in poor conditions, not being allowed to go outside to roam or use the bathroom, being selectively bred, and being crammed into a shed where there is only enough space for the animal to stand. Another similarity in both the analogy and in factory farming is that the animals are being tortured at the expense of a human’s pleasure. Our pleasure causes the animals to experience bad lives full of pain (Lecture). In both cases, the animals are experiencing

In October of 2012, a Jack Russell Terrier puppy named Phoenix was set on fire in Buffalo N.Y. The woman who discovered him was attracted by black smoke. She managed to put out the the flames with her sweater and proceeded to rush him to a small animal hospital with severe burns over his whole body and a serious ankle infection. Although he lost 60% off of both of his ears he maintained almost complete mobility of his leg. He still has a slight limp. Judi Bunge, a senior vet technician at Buffalo Small Animal Hospital who had been looking after Phoenix, adopted him soon after he had fully recovered. He now lives with Judi and her two other dogs. "Phoenix will become a therapy dog and continue his work as an ambassador for the

Norcross is heavily against the consumption of factory produced meat for the farm animals are being abused and our treated like they have no moral status. No one likes to see to a puppy or a kitten in pain. In Norcross’s “Fred’s Basement” story, a man tortures puppies so he can abstract a hormone that can restore his lost beloved taste of chocolate (293). The man, Fred, argues that his happiness and needs as a human outweighs the fact that he is hurting a puppy. Norcross relates this situation to what is happening today with farm animals.

“[T]hey [the animals] are maimed…blinded, poisoned, burned, and cut up alive” (Dent 265). Each of these verbs is powerful, and they grab the reader’s attention. Furthermore, in the excerpt “Chickens are…cramped into their minuscule cages” (Dent 268), specific words like “minuscule” or “cramped” change the entire tone and meaning of the sentence. Such strong language causes readers to think negatively of the way the meat industry treats their animals. Additionally, by saying statement such as “it is not a matter of whether or not they [animals] can talk, what matters is that they can suffer” (Dent 269), Dent attempts to stir readers emotionally and turn them away from eating meat. Overall, Dent engages readers emotionally with both strong language and vivid descriptions and by doing so, makes readers skeptical of or even upset with the meat

In the essay,"The Pig Who Sang to the Moon" by Jeffery Mason, he points out that many farmed animas are getting slaughtered for food.He explains that farm animals have feelings and consciousness as humans in his essay. Farmed animals are dealing with unbearable pain for human to eat. In his essay, he proves us with his brilliant experiences observing farmed animals such as pigs,cows, she eps,goats,ducks and chickens.Farmed animals have unique qualities of their own.Masson points out in his essay that we don 't acknowledge all farmed animals as the way we acknowledge dogs and cats.Masson wants readers to think about the emotions and qualities of farmed animals. He persuades the readers to become vegetarian so farmed animals can live a peaceful and happy life.Masson wants people to stop exploring farm animals in many forms . That is one of the reason i assume why he wrote this essay..Animals needs are ignored and they get treated awfully.He explains that billions of animals that are farmed and slaughtered for human to eat have emotional and intelligent lives.

He brings up the issue of animals being tortured and killed daily for food, clothing, and and entertainment. The only way to stop this, we are told, is by "going vegan" omitting meat and dairy, finding

During the group discussions it helped me earn feedback from my different peers in the class and view the different thoughts and ideas that my fellow classmates had. When writing an essay, having different classmates review my work and give feedback helped me learn more about myself and other people. It helped me learn that people will always have a different point of view when it comes to writing, and I also learned that peer reviews are a precise and beneficial way of showing different ideas and showing mistakes that I made in my essay. This also contributed to my overall improvements of

This idea of humans disregarding the feelings of animals for human selfishness through the use of animals for food is also a main point Walker makes. She discusses how we do not consider the impact that the methods of production have on the animals. Most humans want to be ignorant on how the animals they eat are killed. She explains this idea of the “contented cows” that we see on our milk containers. We choose to be ignorant so we don’t have to own up to all of the bad things we do as a race. Indians are envied for their land and are therefore slaughtered then called animals or savages to make up for our wrong doings. By reminding us of our ignorance in the past she shows us that we have been wrong before and continue to be wrong when it concerns the rights of animals. She ends the piece by claiming that she was “eating misery”, which again shows the emotions that animals have that are so nonchalantly

They do a lot for us too, dogs help police sniff out illegal drugs, sea lions are monitoring climate change in the ocean and bees help grow our planet. Dogs have a sense of smell that is 1000 times stronger than the average human.