some ideas from the eating animal book

1-Animals rights
2- Animals + human beings
3- Role of factory farms.

Based on these three ideas, I believe that animals have rights to their own life. It’s not only because they are animals that they have to be treated as properties, but they have to be considered as animals because they are capable of experiencing physical, emotional pain. Animals share almost the same emotions as humans do .As a result, they deserve the rights to be safe, protected, and not to be used as objects. Raising animals for food in order to maximize profits is the main purpose of factory farming. Factory farms play a huge role in the abominable treatment of those animals. Chickens, cows, and pigs are clearly deprived from the freedom that Mother Nature has given them.  They are pile up in cages where they can’t even move around, and stand up on their feet. Technological power has totally revolutionized the size of animals, which bring them to more suffering.


Animal’s feelings can not be ignored so lightly. Many scientists proved that animals fears pain, and show unhappiness when one of their kind pass away. As Foer acknowledges, “George fears pain, seek pleasure, and craves not just food and play, but companionship” (Foer, 24). T his passage precisely refers to what animals feel. It doesn’t only shows that animals are literally animals, then again also as humans. I’m not saying that there are quite human, however, they have great similarities such as the need to interact, seek pleasure, need companionship. These animals spend their life time in horrible conditions until they are killed. They are fed antibiotics, most of them can't reproduce, and they are totally deprived from they live they suppose to have. Animals might not be having the same rights as human do; however, they can't be people or companies’ property. If animals should be slaughtered, I suggest that they are killed humanely, quickly, and without pain.

Misconception of animals

                                                    Misconception of animals.

Jonathan Safran Foer, the author of eating animals claims that “animals seem to have thoughts and emotions”. And, as he shows it with his companion, George doesn’t like to be frightened, he loves playing. In a way George is an animal, in the other, he’s more than that. According to the etymology, the word animal means “having breath”. It also refers to non-human animals.

People tend to believe that animals are just animals; however, it’s totally the contrary. Human beings are considered as animals, the only difference is the instinct. Animals share the same world of emotions that humans do. They feel melancholy, they fear of being taking away from who they love.

It would be senseless and contradictory at what scientists have proven to acknowledge that animals don’t project any feelings. Animals do have feelings and they also have emotions. By observing the way animals react, do different things reveal that they do have emotions? They cry, they can frighten. Animals experience pain and loss in a similar way to humans. Tom and Minou were in fact parts of my family. They always wanted to be next to me, and we used to share the same bed. They both knew the exact time I would get back home from school, so they would stay in front of the door to say hi. The sounds that they made usually meant how my day was, and if I brought them any gifts.