'Animals Are Not Inanimate Objects' by Ingrid Newkirk

If we classify animals as things, we’re perpetuating the idea that they’re inanimate objects, no different from the notebooks and pencils on your students’ desks. Of course, notebooks and pencils don’t suffer or die if they’re neglected, forgotten, or mistreated. They don’t feel pain, need food and water, think, form relationships, or feel emotions as animals do. Use the “Animals Are Not Inanimate Objects” reading sheet by Ingrid Newkirk to help students differentiate animals from inanimate objects and examine humans' prejudice toward animals.