animal cruelty, n.Definitions

Animal cruelty is terrible. Nothing makes one sadder than when your dog makes fun of you.

Animal cruelty is a problem. We are doing to animals on earth exactly what we fear aliens would do to us

Animal cruelty is not a game. Although boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.

Animal cruelty is blind to us. If one were to catch one's kinds raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each other, one would rush him to a psychiatrist. But you support that very behavior every time you buy meat, eggs, dairy or fur.