Animal rights essay

After reading Michael Pollan’s essay “An Animals Place” you can’t help but to feel sympathy for all the cattle for what they are put through by humans, so we can have the pleasurable meat and its nutrients that we desire in our meals. There is also a reason God created the world the way he did, humans being one of the smartest and most powerful species have come along way to get where we are today, and be as knowledgeable about our environment as we are. Michael Pollan said it best “Animals kill one another all the time. Why treat animals more ethically than they treat one another?” Intelligence is a very valued trait and has helped the Human race to get where we are today; the we least deserve is to enjoy a good meal every now and then that we worked so hard to get.

The torture the United States puts animals through in order to slaughter them, may be taking it a little far but they have good reason to do so, to make it healthier for us humans to consume. There is a reason God created Carnivores, Omnivores and Herbivores, It just so happens that is how the food chain works you can’t blame humans for eating animals its what they were expected to do. Back in the day when humans were cave men how do you think that they survived, by going hunting and cooking the animals for dinner and even using their fur to keep warm because they didn’t have any clothes, it seems to me that it was a method of survival for humans back then and it has helped to get us where we are today. It may seem selfish of the human species but I’m sure if it was the other way around and these animals had the chance to eat us they would. Personally I feel that freeing a lot of animals would only make it more complicated and dangerous humans and animals.


Michael Pollan made a good point when he said “People built a relationship in which they felt they could both honor and eat animals without looking away. But that accommodation has pretty much broken down; nowadays, it seems, we either look away or become vegetarians.”

If this has become such a problem then would not be any meet eaters in the world, but clearly people are still eating meat guilt free because that’s just the way the human life works.

Animal Rights activists go on to talk about how horrible farm animals are treated but in reality these animals would not even exist if it wasn’t for the farmers who breed them in the first place. These animals would not even be able to survive in the wild. It’s bad enough during hibernation season all the road kill you see in the road, could you imagine if all of these animals were in the wild, there would be dead cows, horses, chickens in the road quite often which would also increase the car accidents on the road and cause more danger to humans as well.

If all Farms around the world were shut down, not only would it put a lot of people out of jobs but it would also make a lot of animals without of homes, which would lead to a ton of different species that would go extinct because its impossible for them to survive on their own, for one finding food year round would be a huge problem and two a lot of animals have no way of defending themselves from their predators. A lot of people get the wrong ideas about farms, not all farms slaughter their animals and they also produce mass amounts of fruits and vegetables for all those vegetarians out there that wouldn’t survive without farms as either. Even in Pollans essay he stated that “there has been a revival of small farms where animals still live their "characteristic form of life." I'm thinking of the ranches where cattle still spend their lives on grass, the poultry farms where chickens still go outside and the hog farms where pigs live as they did 50 years ago--in contact with the sun, the earth and the gaze of a farmer.”And as for the domesticated animals such as dogs, cats etc. there is no doubt that they would not be able to survive in the world on their own and they have humans to thank for coming to their rescue. Although Michael Pollans essay brought up a lot of good points as to why people should become vegetarians, I’m still not entirely convinced and apparently neither is all of America because if that was the case the world wouldn’t be full of anything but vegetarians.