Humanity should respect animals.

[Gribbons]

If majority Aye! then "our view" humanity agrees to respect animals and we can refer to it in future conversations as de jure "my humanity".

If we are to define animals as humans, then we might as well include all other lifeforms as well. If not for microbes, algae, and fungi, there certainly wouldn't be any "higher" forms of life. Maybe we should pay more respect to bacteria as well...

Earplugs won't block out the scream of a cow having her newborn calf taken away from her. They scream for days.

Elephants chained to the ground holler and rampage for weeks until they give up and never try again.

Animals have emotions you can't deny unless your paid to be cruel and desensitized.

However I have been learning more about hunting deer, and how if the population soars, so do predators. However, we are so detached from the process of taking life for survival, that there's no way we can honestly feel any "real genuine" gratification for it anymore at all, unless you really know what it is you're doing, and that requires experience, IMO.

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And even hunters know how to get them down in a matter of seconds. I'm coming to see it as a very respectful and aware way of being one with nature.