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Primarily my concern about this fuzzy line is that "rights" are currently reserved to people. When we start anthropomorphizing our pets (or farm animals, or wild animals) and giving them the natural law rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then I get very worried for the future of our species.

What is your concern about realizing animals have feelings, emotions and can feel pain, and for that reason try, within reason, not to hurt them without reason?
Even though I have huge problems with the industrial way of keeping livestock, I also understand that food production is the purpose, and people need food to survive (even though I personally don't eat meat). So I am not talking about this.

You don't understand sport hunting, but don't project onto hunters some homicidal intent.

Even though this was not the thing I wanted to discuss about I can say I have a double feeling with hunting.
Hunting and then eat the kills is fine, as long as it is done in a good way. Sports hunting I find less of a nice thing. I don't say sports hunters have homicidal intents, but they like to kill animals.....same feeling as people how go and watch free-fight shows.....not my thing, even though I understand that this wanting to kill or see fights is a very basic human emotion.

You assume that "feedlot" farming is cruel, because you have seen some videos of cruel feedlot conditions. This type of propaganda is sufficient for cause oriented advocates to sway lots of soft hearted people to vote away their freedoms.

I wasn't saying that. Just as with hunting, I also didn't want to discuss this.


I was talking about far more visible things that most (at least I think) people will agree on (so not about hunting or feedlot farming). Hurting animals for the fun of it, unnecesarry hurting of animals or bestiality are things that in most western nations are illegal. Anthropomorphization has nothing to do with that.