Back on topic....
Animal cruelty huh? Define it.
How many hundreds of thousands of animals are systematically put to death everyday to feed humans? Chickens, cows, pigs, lambs, turkeys.....just because these are not "domesticated" makes a huge difference huh? Ever driven behind a truck loaded with live chickes on the way to a "processing" plant?
Mankind, for the most part, has issue's with all things cute. A "cute" (could read white here) child that goes missing gets huge, National press, while a "not-so-cute" (could read non-white) child slips into silent infinity ...a cute puppy, or a darling little Bambi raises the anger of people when found dead, but Pit-Bulls should all be banned from society? Sending a "stupid" cow down a narrow "hallway" to have a metal piston cave it's skull in, does not anger the masses, but a bowhunter dragging a whitetail deer out of the woods is cause for protest.