Animals Are People Too By Nadini Mintra Summary

Animal Rights In today’s society, people are putting up a quite substantial fight for animals to receive the same rights as humans, as far as freedom from cruelty and suffering. Animal rights activists are stating that innocent animals should not be exploited for work, food, or testing just because they are “non-human”. Author, editor, and animal activist, Maureen Nandini Mintra, presents her argument of the importance of supporting animal rights in her magazine article “Animals Are Persons, Too”. Mintra works for the magazine company, Earth Island Journal, as the managing editor and is actively working to obtain rights for animals living in zoo’s and other animals that are in captivity. In this article, Mintra demonstrates the importance for people to support animal rights and discusses what needs to be done for animals to be freed from cruelty. Mintra talks about all of the different zoos that she has visited and the different encounters and experiences that she had with various “imprisoned” animals, specifically chimpanzees and elephants. She also makes it her point to explain that animals that are captured and placed in zoos

One weakness that became apparent upon analyzing this reading was when she would refer to the animals and the people that she had worked with on a first name basis because it became hard to remember who was an activist and who was an animal that Mintra was using as an example in her case of why animal rights are needed. Maureen Nandini Mintra used clear language that was easy for the audience to understand but got the point that she was trying to make across. In the end, a very persuasive argument was made by Mintra because how she used the words, examples, personal stories that she did to get in touch with the readers and persuade them to support the cause that she believes is of such