Yes, if they haven't committed any crime.
Is it EVIL to kill a cow by hitting it in the head really hard and then hacking it up for food?
No, because you are not torturing it by making it fight for survival first.
Animals that are killed for food should be killed as humanly as possible, not hung and then drowned when they haven't died.
Stop making excuses for cruelty.
I will gladly “stop” making excuses for cruelty, mainly because I never did make an excuse for cruelty. You see, I never once excused Vick’s behavior. As a matter of fact, I don’t know EXACTLY what that behavior was.
I was trying to point out the very deep ambivalence in our culture toward other species.