Letter to Editor Essay Essays - Articles, Food And Drink

My thoughts on Jeremy Rifkin are very different because some of the claims that he makes are not wrong I also do believe that animals should be cared for and get love and affection but the obvious problem here is that this is one of our biggest sources of food in the earth. If people decide that animals are the same as humans then our population will drastically plummet and you can not look past the hard facts. Reasoning for writing this is because as you know Rifkin is an economist and this just does not make him sound credible anymore because of what the topic is that he is speaking on he is trying to make scientific claims and yet he knows that there will be backlash because he is an economist. As you read Rifkin makes extensive claims that pigs need human contact and that they need to have toys and must be played with but does he ever think that some kids in the world has none of this , they don't have toys or someone to care for them and people think that this type of emotional neglect is ten times harder on a human child than it is on something like a pig. It makes you think maybe Rifkin just cares about animal rights and is a vegan or vegetarian because he does leave out a lot of information on all of this article. Animals are very smart creatures obviously people see this on a day to day basis threw social media and such and it is an amazing thing what some animals can do but you have to think about the rest of the world when making claims that say you must change your ways of life from eating meat and this is actually extremely hard for some people. If you put our population into perspective 7% of the population actually doesn't eat meat this is a huge difference from the people who do eat meat. You can think of this from both sides and say, yes animals are alike to humans but you have to understand that our population is not going to give up meat in the snap of a finger because that means a lot especially to americans eat 55.6 pounds of meat are consumed a year just by the U.S alone . Maybe as prices rise more and more and people might want to quit meat but only time can tell. The meat that people eat do vary from cow, chicken, pigs, horse, even alligator so this is something that you must l ook at all of these are animals yet the people are not going to be able to do anything at all people the there is not enough people in this world to fight against the people who like meat.Rifkin does make good points throughout the article but he is not credible and it seems that Rifkin is an animal activist and wants to prove a point. People do have right to their own opinion and in this case Rifkin wants to just inform people of what is happening but Rifkin must understand that he is not going to look credible mainly because of his occupation at the moment maybe it will change in the future. The science experiments he was talking about have some credibility because these things really did happen but .In conclusion Rifkin has never written on this topic but did research beforehand just to make the article sound appealing to a minor audience.