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Especially as a human can normally consent to death but a pet can't

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[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

animal abuse is a crime you cant just do whatever you want

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You can place an animal in the open back of a truck in -30C weather and ship them 1,000km, knowing the whole time that the animal will arrive dead, and it is not a crime. No one will bat an eye because it happens THOUSANDS of times a year here in Canada.

You can take a perfectly healthy and happy animal, and stab it right in the throat, because you want the meat, or because you like stabbing animals, and it is not a crime. This also happens many thousands of times a year here in Canada.

Certain animals (mainly pets) have very limited protection against abuse, but those laws do not protect the life of the animal or protect the animal from needless suffering, cruelty, or violence. Factory farming exceeds these protections routinely, but the law is set up in many provinces to make reporting these crimes effectively itself a crime.

You can do whatever you want.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

okay. now what? If you have a point to make, I suggest you just come out and make it and stop talking around your point. Otherwise you waste both of our time. "Animal abuse" isn't the name of a specific crime and most forms of animal abuse ARE NOT CRIMES.

Canada has some of the weakest animal protection laws in the Western world. Animals are property with no rights. The protections that exist are mere lip-service. Prosecutions are extremely rare and most forms of cruelty that people commonly practice are perfectly legal.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

you cant just "do whatever you want" you will go to jail. i didnt know canada was so lax on it but in the usa if you arent arrested an angry mob will kill you