alt Hacker News> The reason humans ban animal cruelty is that animals look like they have emotions humans can relate to.
Is that really why?
> The reason humans ban animal cruelty is that animals look like they have emotions humans can relate to.
Is that really why?
Yes, we don't ban plant cruelty or insect cruelty or fish cruelty.
For example fish is treated way worse than meat animals and vegetarians still happily eat fish.