Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.
Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.
As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.