In the article "A Change of Heart About Animals" Jeremy Rifkin talks about the different scientific experiments that have been conducted on animals and how these experiments show that animals are more like us than we thought. But what did animals do before we had much of a presence in their life? They killed eachother for food they needed to survive, it was survival of the fittest. Until humans started to domesticate animals I believe that most animals only real goal in their life time was to live day by day and eat food when needed. They did not care what it was as long as it kept them going. Then again it is how you raise an animal and where it has been its whole life. To raise an animal specifically to eat it and make it suffer for your enjoyment is wrong.
When provided food and shelter to a living being it creates a sense of constistance in their life and they are no longer as focused on killing anything to get by. Although they will if need b, just as a human would do in time of need. Which is something that connects ourselves to animals. Just like us animals can also be taught skills, like lanugauges and techinques such as Koko, Betty and Able. Animals are taught and able to learn the feelings humans naturally posses. Animals are not neccessarily naturally emapthetic to another animals situation. When I am out around other dogs and people I would say my dogs doesn't understand if a person or dog is in pain and sad. If they know the person they can sense it otherwise they don't automatically reconize like a human would. Rifkin is someone who obviosly feels passionate about animals and that they are alike humans. He states that " the human journey is, at it's core, about the extension of empathy to broader and more inclusive domains." So then what if we humans are just making animals feel what we feel?
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