...Jeremy Rifkin’s use of ethos in his article “A Change of Heart About Animals” (September 1, 2003) is not very effective in creating a strong argument that would change readers’ attitudes toward the treatment of animals and animal rights. Rifkin is an economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, and activist that writes about the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy and society. His work focuses mostly on the economy, science, technology, and political science but not so much on animal studies thus making him seem more of an animal rights activist rather than a knowledgeable source of information on animals. Consequently, Rifkin’s work has been critiqued a number of times because of the lack of scientific rigor...
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...The article “A Change of Heart about Animals”, written by Jeremy Rifkin, features different studies and details regarding similarities between humans and animals. The article was featured in the Los Angeles Times in 2003, and Rifkin himself was interviewed for Time Magazine in 1989. He consistently discusses similar ideas, proving that he is educated on the topic. Throughout this piece in particular, he paves way for an argument regarding how people should be viewing and treating animals; he really wants there to be a return to humanity. The purpose of his writing is to show readers, by including numerous pieces of evidence and information, an explanation regarding how animals and people aren’t as different as one may think. His argument,...
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...I am writing to you regarding Jeremy Rifkin’s article, “A Change of Heart About Animals.” He claims that animals deserve more rights than they already have. I disagree because he says that animals such as pigs should receive more attention and receive toys to have the pigs from fighting each other. But, in third world countries human children don't even have any toys at all. As Rifkin remarks that animals are more important than children. Rifkin also mentions that , “Germany recently became the first nation to guarantee animal rights in its constitution.” Is he trying to state that Germany is better than the U.S nicely. If there is one thing that we like the most it's our livestock and our view of livestock is food something that keeps...
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...Atwood 1 Kimberly Atwood Mr. Evans ERWC 22 October 2014 Letter to the Editor In "A Change of Heart about Animals", Jeremy Rifkin states that animals experience pain, suffering and affection. (2) While Rifkin is correct, he ultimately fails to persuade the reader to have a change heart about animals because of his use of word choice and the statement about Koko the gorilla. Rifkin's use of word choice makes us believe certain things that aren't necessary true. Like how he uses the word groom instead of brushed to make us believe that Chantek, an orangutan, is paying lots of detail to himself and making sure he looks good, but when in fact Chantek is probably just playing with his hair. However I do agree with Rifkin's comment about pigs....
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...I am writing to you regarding Jeremy Rifkin’s article, “A Change of Heart About Animals.” He claims that animals deserve more rights than they already have. I disagree because he says that animals such as pigs should receive more attention and receive toys to have the pigs from fighting each other. But, in third world countries human children don't even have any toys at all. So, is Rifkin trying to say that animals are more important than children. Rifkin also say’s that , “Germany recently became the first nation to guarantee animal rights in its constitution.” Is he trying to that Germany is better than the U.S nicely.If there is one thing that we like the most it's our livestock and our view of livestock is food something that keeps our...
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...Dear Editor, Jeremy Rifkin’s findings published in “A Change of Heart about Animals” made me realize that animals can undergo pain, suffering, and affection just like us. The society is indebted to Rifkin for showing that animals are actually more identical to us than we thought. Rifkin just stated the obvious and argued how we should give animals more care and respect. The research conducted on whether animals can experience emotions like pain and fear rationalizes the adoption of laws protecting animals from lab experiments or human consumption . I agree with Rifkin,animals should not get abuse, kill, or hit. They are just like humans who have family to go to, take care of, and feed. An example are pets because they know...
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...by the dog as he used his body to shield the infant from the flames.” In the article, “A Change of Heart about Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin, he asserts that “animals feel pain, suffer, and experience stress, affection, excitement and even love.” I believe animals are exceptionally similar to humans. They should be studied more due to the similarity of characteristics that they share with humans. I agree with Rifkin’s article because he uses great insight and valuable information. Since animals are our fellow beings we should live to respect their lives and importance on earth instead of questioning their intelligence and emotions. To start with, it seems to me that animals have the ability to feel any emotion. In the documentary Blackfish (2013), there is a scene where a calf whale named Kohana was taken from her mother Takara. During the course of that scene, Takara was so distressed and upset she had emitted vocalizations no one had ever heard from her. This of...
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...Change of Heart About Animals “ by Jeremy Rifkin and “ Hooked on a Myth “, by Victoria Brathwaite, both authors attempt to persuade their audience to rethink their opinions on if we should give animals rights.The authors state good reasons why we should give animal rights. They also make the audience question many important things on how we should treat our animals. Another good point they state in the article is if we do decide to give animal rights will this affect the way we live? This topic is very iffy because we can side on either sides based on reasoning. Researchers have found evidence on how our fellow creatures are similar to us than we ever thought. Does this mean we have to treat our animals with more respect and do you think they deserve a Bill of...
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...Just because animals cannot communicate it doesn’t imply that they don’t feel pain or have no response to sufferings. Thus, it is firmly believed that animals should granted Bill of Rights. The concept of Bill Of Rights is only specific to the world where human lives. The man has become so selfish over the course of time that he even forgot that there are other living creatures on Earth, who have also been granted the gift of life by God. In “A change of Heart about Animals” Rifkin states the work of many researchers “ many of our fellow creatures are like us than we had ever imagined.”(Rifkin 33) which shows that animals are also living beings like us, who cherish the time of joy and their reaction is not different to pain and sufferings than we humans. Animals are only seen as a childhood pet, adopted for human recreational purposes, looked down as a source of food, medicine and education or mere useless creatures. It is wrong for humans to harm animals for no compelling reason. Living beings are abused not only by the strangers but also by the loved ones for no compelling reason at all. Humans as well...
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...as we know it? As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for. In this eye-opening book, Jeremy Rifkin argues that improvements such as automation, computerization and re-engineering mean that more goods and services can be produced with less human labor. If less people are working then who will buy all these new products that hit the market at an accelerated rate? The author's organization webpage (www.foet.org), retrieved on March 3rd, 2011 provides a brief biographical sketch on Jeremy Rifkin as an American economist, writer, public speaker, political advisor and activist. Rifkin is the President of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of seventeen bestselling books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, society, the workforce, and the environment. His most recent books include The Empathic Civilization, The Hydrogen Economy, The European Dream, The End of Work, The Age of Access, and The Biotech Century. He currently serves as an advisor to the European Union, European Commission, the European Parliament, and several EU heads of state and has been influential in shaping public policy in the United States. With global unemployment hitting an all time high and effecting virtually every sector and industry, this book is as relevant today as it was when it was first published over fifteen years ago. In the republished 2004 edition Rifkin updates the introduction to address his discontent with the old logic that advancement in productivity...
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...Moves Outline of the case A. Introduction Nutrorim was established in 1986 by an organic farmer and his wife. Don Rifkin had taken the charge of CEO in 1989. Its products were gaining national attention. The sales of organic performance enhancing supplement powder ChargeUp, was increasing enormously. It was the best selling product among the category. ChargeUp has undergone an upgrade with the additive Lipitrene. The new ChargeUp has just been released on a limited basis to local area retailers. Company’s expectation with this upgraded product was high. With the end of first quarter, the sales had been increased by 20% in the test market. Don has a way of trying to avoid conflict. When ChargeUp was in the marketing phase, the marketing manager asked the opinion of the entrepreneur Nora. Nora was not keen on the product with the new ingredient. This caused friction between her and the R&D manager Steve. That time Don had tried to restore the peace. But before the state wide launch, an investigator from a state department of health had informed Don that he was investigating 11 individuals from Syd’s Gym who took ChargeUp, who now had gastrointestinal distress. He advised him to recall the product from the market. Don called an emergency meeting with heads of PR, Sales, R&D, and Legal to decide whether to recall the product. CEO Rifkin had always tried to provide an open and democratic environment for company’s decision making process. But this had proved problematic...
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...health impacts and the consequences of using GMO’s is unknown and unpredicted. The benefits of using Genetically Modified Organism’s in our crops do not compare with the possible detrimental impacts on our environment and ecosystem, health, and the future of our planet. The use of GMO’s in food production is creating major environmental concerns both to the FDA and consumers. Unknown and unstudied chemicals that are being put into our environment with the GMO’s leave us uncertain about the damage being caused. Chemicals such as herbicides are being used in greater quantities to control weeds creating a possible vicious cycle. As weeds develop resistance, it forces a greater use of herbicides to control increasingly resistance strains (Rifkin), which in turn requires new and more powerful herbicides. Jeremy Rifkin’s article, “The Biotech Century” expresses concern...
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...Name Professor Course Date Definition of Civilization When people in the community live peacefully, the level of development increases tremendously thereby civilization sets in. Before civilization came into existence, the early people lived off the land and were nomadic hunter-gatherers. With time, these hunters and groups of foragers started to settle down. There were strains on the nomadic people in that they had to find reliable sources of food for the animals that were large to feed. The exact meaning of “civilization” sometimes becomes hard to define since it can be ambiguous. It is easier for civilization to be described than it can be defined. According to Mazlish (5), civilization can be defined in many ways, but many scholars agree that when a society forms cities the result is that it becomes a civilization. Scholars define civilization as a set of attributes that certain societies possess, for example, agriculture, writing, monumental construction, government, mathematics among others. Emphasis is employed in the definition of civilization in terms of describing societies as being urbanized and hierarchical. Civilization is traced back to the Latin word “civilis” that has the meaning of “citizen” that means a member in a state that has a government or any sort of ruling in place. Civilization takes many forms that may include division of labor, surplus of food, and organization of governments and religion. Many people should be cognizant, and understand...
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...is appalling that we mistreat animals who do not have a voice to speak up for themselves. We have laws that are suppose to protect animals; however, “an animal is abused and tortured every ten seconds in America” (Animal Cruelty). An Animal Bill of Rights is a better way we can enforce these laws and offer better protection for animals; it gives animals a much needed voice. Every year, more than a hundred million defenseless, innocent animals are being experimented on in merciless ways. Twenty- six million of those animals are just in the United States and 95% of those experiments are not protected by Federal Animal Welfare, one of the existing laws for animals. One of the most common and...
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...The Splendor of the Assembly Process in Manufacturing Abstract The assembly process is both unique and versatile, and presents an interesting way to look at all manufacturing processes as a whole instead of individual pieces. By examining the different methods and materials that make up today’s products it will be shown how the assembly process is the most versatile and mandatory process in manufacturing. Examining the different methods and materials reveals the uniqueness of the assembly process and how it can literally be applied to any product, method, or material in manufacturing. This will also high light the importance of the advancement of the assembly process both past and present. Studying the industrial revolution provides key elements in how the manufacturing industry has become what it is today. From the invention of the flying shuttle to the innovation behind the assembly line, it can be determined that the development of assembly process machinery and technology is the key to the advancement of our economy and country as a whole. These minor ripples in the pool of industry ended up causing tsunamis and forever changing the landscape of the country as we know it. Looking back at the technological advancements of the industrial revolution it becomes clear that we are on the verge of yet another revolution in industry. The introduction of auto-CAD and the 3-D printer have already started the next wave in what is sure to become a tsunami in the...
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