[spanalot]

"Define 'animal cruelty'."

It can't be done because this is an issue invented by an interest group that can not be satiated.

Someday they will demand that we not comb our hair to save the hundreds of microscopic creatures that thrive on every persons head.

[Savage Beast]

I invented the phrase "animal cruelty" ad hoc. I am not a member of any "interest group". I have no interest in political correctness, other than to avoid it.

Cruelty is a big turn-off--culinarily, sexually, and in every other way--food, wine, sex, pleasure, or anything else--as far as I'm concerned. Some people like it. Some, apparantly, are indifferent. Some don't like it (me). Some people love sadomasochism. I don't.

If you like cruelty or are indifferent to it, it's not my problem.

[B Knotts]

You're correct, of course.

These people consider any human use of animals to be "cruelty." Their demands will never end, until others begin to ignore them.

[SamAdams76]

Their is a lot of hypocrisy in the "animal cruelty" movement. The fact is, when animals are in their natural environment, nearly all of them are killed by predators. Every waking moment of a typical animal's life in the wild is devoted to survival, be it obtaining food (which often included killing other animals) or avoiding being some other animal's food.

Therefore, when animals are raised on farms, where they are protected from predators and fed, it is the best life they could ever imagine!