Answers questions regarding animals' right to freedom One could argue that America is a democratic country and therefore everyone should be guaranteed the right to freedom. You might also ask that if the constitution itself makes no distinction between animals and humans, then what gives humans the right to do so? In response to this, Pollan states that “granting rights to animals may lift us from the brutal world of predation, but it will involve sacrificing a part of our identity: our very animality” (Pollan 218). Many humans rely on animals for protein and if these suddenly stopped, the entire food chain would be disturbed. As stated previously, Pollan believes that slaughtering an animal can be justified if it has received adequate care, love and respect. In addition to this, Bentham also said, “the death they suffer in the [slaughterhouses] is, and can always be, quicker and, therefore, less painful than that which would await them in the inevitable course of nature” (Pollan 219) . Ultimately, having your throat slit is better than being killed or bitten by a wolf and then left to bleed to death. It is true that if the animal lived in the wild it would be free but in this case it might not even be able to protect itself from the strongest and heaviest predators. Slaughterhouses in a certain sense protect these animals from threats from outside