Animals are conscious and should be treated as such

[AngelofDeath]

Again, we are the guides of those lower entities and I believe that things work from the top down. Animals don't incarnate to experience suffering, that doesn't make any sense, they incarnate to progress along their evolution of consciousness. Suffering is part of living in a physical body, but there are forms of suffering which become extreme. The type of suffering that animals experience at the hand of humans is symptomatic of the way we view our own species.

So to blame animals for their experience of cruelty is victim-blaming at its most ridiculous.