I’m not arguing to exclude animal agriculture from laws about animal abuse. Here’s what I’m saying:
Making the law very strict in a way that would make animal agriculture impossible, or its products too expensive, would be politically impossible. People would oppose such changes.
But if you make a special case where cruelty just for the sake of cruelty, for entertainment, would be severly punished, I think that would be very much acceptable. I don’t imagine that people would oppose that. And that’s a win we can take.
The bar for “animal abuse” remains unfortunately low for most industries, but we take every win we can get.
That doesn’t prevent us from continuing to educate people about the realties of human agriculture, and to make people think about their impact on sentient beings’ wellbeing and suffering.
I’m not arguing to exclude animal agriculture from laws about animal abuse. Here’s what I’m saying:
And I don’t consume animal products.