It is an animal. My values, and Catholic teaching as I understand it, is that we can kill animals all we want to serve our purposes. We can’t torture animals though. These values are very biblical. I think those who advocate for no animal sacrifice are nothing more than pagans, or more charitably, misguided in their understanding of God’s will.
That’s a Biblical point of view.
Your “animal rights campaigners” want to distort the meanings of Proverbs 12:10 and Ecclesiastes 3:19 though, and take them utterly out of context.
I suspect that those animals are all eaten. There are a lot of hungry people in India.
As for suffering, I doubt that there is much. Most farmers know how to butcher animals. The idea that you need to be a “professional” in order to do anything competently, is a fabrication of the last 60 years, and then only in the wealthy western world.
I have pretty much the same understanding.
I also have zero problem with people in the third world raising animals as livestock which are pets in the west.
Guess I just don’t have the hubris to be part of the PETA crowd. However many of them may be posting on Free Republic now.