Soooo....just because they aren’t persons/humans we don’t owe them consideration in an act of cruelty as we must focus only on the human perpetrator?
We need to define cruelty.....random acts of senseless cruelty which causes needless pain or death for NO reason at all other than the pleasure the tormentor feels....
That is nowhere in the same category as hunting and killing deer for food, or killing a chicken to put it on the table for dinner.
Just where did I even remotely suggest that?