In the mood to get blocked by peta so let's do this, thread on why we treat animals even better than we're supposed to https://twitter.com/peta/status/1354112418276728832

As you know, every environment has an ecosystem, with a food chain consisting of the prey and predators, with the apex predator at the top. We are the apex predator in a lot of ecosystems, and so we rule over that community of animals as the strongest, as nature intended

Take for example, monkeys. Monkeys have been known to commonly use tools to their advantage, and tactics to capture prey, just as we do, because our intelligence is superior, we have adapted that into the way we hunt. Humans happen to be extremely skilled at adapting to hunts.

Now, is it wrong of monkeys to use their advantages over other species to dominate them and use them for food? No, it's just nature. We do the exact same, except instead of tails and sticks, we use more advanced tools, in order to secure the food we need.

Additionally, we often kill the animals in a much less painful way than they would die in the wild. Most apex predators will crush bones, rip limbs off, do things that would be considered torture to us. We get food in a much more ethical manner.

And finally, we have people who think that this isn't right, that we're better than this. We're already improving beyond nature's intentions for us, and therefore, we've done nothing wrong to animals that they haven't already had done to them, it's the way of the world.

Not to deny past injustices, we can do wrong things to animals, but in doing so we degrade ourselves to their level.