Alongside Humans

Animals should be treated with more respect because humans rely on them to survive.

“An Animal’s Place” is a very strong piece on the treatment of animals. Pollan argues that animals do have the right to consideration as to how they are treated. Surely we should not treat them as we do fellow humans, but we should treat them as an animal, not an object. The treatment of animals, specifically the animals raised for human consumption, seem to not have the same rights as the animals raised for other purposes. Some may argue that there should be no wasted time nurturing the animals that will be killed sooner rather than later, and yet how can one treat animals so inhumanely? Just because the animal is raised for food shouldn’t mean that they are kept in cages so small that they cannot turn around. There has to be some thought about the quality of life of these animals that are raised so that humans may be nourished. The thought of treating animals as objects is clearly abundant in the video about super cows. Only in a world that needs to fill a quota of how much meat is produced in a certain amount of time would think of selectively breeding these cows so that each muscle on their body is doubled in size. There is no other purpose for these cows than to feed us, and these cows would not exist if not for our meddling.