He talks about “animals subjected every year to distressing experiments in research centers” (Rifkin) and “raised in the most cruel conditions”. He further cites that the animals are “intended for butchery and human use.” These words, words like submissive, heartless and butcher, have incredibly negative meanings and suggest ruthless and vicious thoughts. If we follow Rifkin's reasoning and make animals look like individuals, slaughter them (so as not to eat less) and stick needles in their eyes in a laboratory - this is fundamentally unsatisfactory. That's what Rifkin needs to get it. For Rifkin, this is the current situation, but it is not necessarily the case. If people understand that animals are particularly like us, we will want them to be treated with the same admiration and balance. At the moment we are not doing this. However, we can. Not only does Rifkin imply that the scientific findings he summarizes should change the way we view animals, but he is also desperate to change action. questioning things like “Should wild lions be caged in zoos” (Rifkin) and especially asking the question of what all this means about how we will treat “our fellow human beings” (Rifkin) . Now I ask you after reading this rhetoric