Several months ago a guy who beat up a puppy was sentenced to 18 months or so in prison. For beating up a stinkin puppy! People starve a human and nothing happens to them.
Yeah, and IIRC, a lot of misanthropic pet people were saying that wasn't enough. That puppy beating was indicative of the guy being cut from the same cloth as serial killers, and robert blake and scott peterson, et al.
I think PETA people are nearly all misanthropic and so are a couple of pet people I work with. They've got 4 dogs, 4 cats and no friends, and that's by design.