New Views or Realizing the Obvious?

The article “A Change Of Heart About Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin makes Americans look stupid. First he states that new scientific findings are “changing how we view animals.” He’s saying that we change our minds from a little, new research. In that same sentence he is saying that most people didn’t even know this from obvious things in the world surrounding us. That’s basically calling people stupid. Then he continues to insult us by adding the fast food companies into it. Sure they are helping fuel the research, but that is because people give them crap and guilt trip them into “being better”. There was no necessity to add in that McDonald’s funded a pig behavior study. It’s a great article with lots of amazing things, like the bird who made the wire into a tool by bending it, but that only makes it seem as if he is trying to prove why people should believe something that they should’ve already known. Have you ever seen an ASPCA commercial? They specifically use the animals obvious emotion of pain, sadness, and happiness (from when they are better) to get you to help their cause. They knew about the animal’s feelings and use it to help their cause, so why is it that people are “changing how they feel” about animals that obviously have feelings. Its been staring people in the face, so either he is calling us stupid for not seeing the obvious, or is he trying to rally people behind for another goal? Only he knows which is true, but either can’t be that good.

~Amber S.

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