The over humanization of pets and animals

[XenophobicPrussian]

I really find the humanization of pets to be annoying. Especially women with cats or miniature dogs... babying them and such.

Actually, babying them like dressing them up and carrying them in your purse is considered animal abuse by most animal experts. Animals don't like that kind of stuff. BeerBaron isn't only talking about that though.

I'll admit though, I don't care for cats.

[XenophobicPrussian]

I really don't think that its such a big issue in the world. When you look at the brass tax of our agriculture/husbandry system it is quite evident that by in large animals are still treated as a commodity. I love everything about eating chicken, and I totally support our chicken farmers; but I must accept that my love of mass produced chicken comes at a price. I really dont think a lonely housewife dressing up her lap dog in a little costume means we are on the threshold of rights parity between man and animal, if such a notion existed then factory farms and the like would be out of the question.

That isn't abuse to livestock though. They don't mind it. There's also a huge level of intelligence between those animals and say, a lion or a wolf. That's why we don't eat wolves or lions.

What is abuse is fucking Indians/SE Asians locking up wild animals like tigers up in cages, bad zoo conditions, some douchebags in Manhattan keeping birds in a cage in their apartment, etc.