On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 12:08:12 PM UTC-7, Paul Schlyter wrote:
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 07:58:45 -0700, Chris L Peterson
wrote:

A law against cruelty to animals does not mean that animals have
rights.

From a human perspective it certainly does.

Maybe the law against cruelty to animals is only there to allow the
authorities to have a pretext to lock up sadistic people before they
graduate to humans, and is not there because anyone (among those making
the laws, that is) really cares about animals.

So even the most outrageous tortures done to animals for some legitimate
practical reason would remain perfectly legal.

John Savard