Jeremy Rifkin A Change Of Heart About Animals Summary

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I was enlightened when I read Jeremy Rifkin’s article, “A change of Heart About Animals”. Rifkin claims that animals are like us more than we imagined, he supports this by saying koko the gorilla at the gorilla foundation in northern california, was taught sign language and mastered over 1,000 signs and understands several thousand english words. Rifkin is showing us the readers that animals have feelings and emotions just like we do. He supports this by showing the research of Mcdonalds on pigs social behavior, they found that the pigs crave attention and are easily depressed, sad, In germany their government encouraged farmers to give their pigs each 20 seconds of human contact each day. In my opinion 20 seconds each day is not enough affection