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We Love Animals. Why Do We Torture Them?

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People love animals. Cute cat videos rule TikTok and YouTube, the Puppy Bowl clocks up 420M social media views, and Disney movies venerate animated creatures. Two thirds of Americans have at least one pet and 88% of them consider their pets to be family members, whom they lavish $137B on annually — more than the economic output of most nations. People also hate animal abuse. Hollywood movies proudly proclaim “no animals were harmed,” while social media platforms all claim to ban content involving cruelty to animals. Ask ChatGPT if animal abuse is wrong and it drops its standard moral neutrality in favor of an empathetic “yes.” A 2019 Faunalytics survey found that most Americans agreed that “people have an obligation to avoid harming all animals,” while a 2015 Gallup survey found that fully a third of Americans believe animals deserve “the exact same rights as people to be free from harm and exploitation.” Even the worst politicians and corporations don’t dare defend animal cruelty publ

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