i think you may be missing the opportunity here.
and that is, if these animals have rights and such, this can be leveraged to secure more rights for unborn people, who are actual people.
because it would be legally bipolar/schizophrenic to give more rights/protection to animals than people, unborn or not.
you gotta always see how you can use things to our advantage. a/positive step forward for animal cruelty rights can be a stepping stone into other areas. the left does this and we must as well. this is how we lose. we dont’ keep going and we don’t make correlations to other related things, we get cynical and think the worst about a positive thing because it doesn’t fix something else.
I’m astonished that less brutality done to animals is considered a “bad thing”, here.