No, I definitely don’t think we have a right to abuse animals, despite our right to husband them for our uses.
There is a verse in the Old Testament that commands that the mother’s milk not be used to cook the meat of her calf. It is interpreted by Jewish scholars that it means that the mother should not see her own calf killed and cooked.
In other words to be mindful of the animals in our care.
“There is a verse in the Old Testament that commands that the mother’s milk not be used to cook the meat of her calf.”
Actually, it was a “kid.” And it was one Ten Commandments mentioned in I believe Exodus 34 (if I remember correctly, there were a few differences in the ten after Moses broke the first tablets, but I don’t recall for certain, I’m not an Old Testament buff).
‘A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast...’(Pr.12:10)