As I say the bit in bold is where I think the difference lies. If you put the animals in the pen together, you are responsible for what happens.
I agree - we do that a lot and personally I’m fine with all sorts of things we do to animals.
But I’m not going to fool myself that it has anything to do with ‘nature’.
It’s us.
In my view that comes with a moral responsibility not to fuck with animals more than we consider necessary or appropriate.
I don’t think these were either necessary or appropriate.
That has nothing to do with assigning humanity to animals. It is a question of assigning humanity to ourselves.
