What creatures are below animal cruelty in your opinion?

I've only read the first 20 posts on this topic but everyone is wrong on the first page. I think you need to look up the definition of cruelty and callousness. I also think people have difficultly distinguishing carnivourism and torturing an animal. Only stupid people think they are synomous, are you a stupid person?

Obviously there are cultural components to this, there is a fairly arbitrary decision between what animals are good for food and which aren't (e.g. majority of irish ppl don't knowingly eat horse but do eat cow). However, in all of these cases, the killing of the animal, whether for food or for glue, must be humane. This is why all cruelty to animals like dogs, cats, horses that die by neglect etc. cannot be condoned. Not because they are cute and furry but that is a horrendous way to die and neglect is a human factor.

Killing a rat in a trap is actually, in my argument, a reasonably humane way to go. They neck should break and the rat should immediately suffer cardiac or brain failure and die. Rats and mice do feel pain and proprioception, this is proven in laboratory testing. We previously knew a lot less about octopus, shrimp and lobsters as they have completely different nervous systems to animals like people and dogs but they also have similar experiences to bad stimuli.

So ppl that eat live shrimp, squid or cook lobster alive are cruel in my opinion, and callous as well, and this is an inhumane death for said creature and should not be condoned.

Rats