No, you asked whether it should be held liable. I answered that it should be held liable, conditional on the legal process determining so. We can't just decide

No, you asked whether it should be held liable. I answered that it should be held liable, conditional on the legal process determining so. We can't just decide that they should be held liable by mob vote, that's not how justice works. Hence my answer: If A then B. I made no statement wrt. my personal opinion whether A is true or not. But even rolling with the argument for a moment that the meat industry meets the bar and manages to evade the law anyway. That is no justification for letting pets do the same. Two wrongs don't make a right and all that, so for the purpose of this conversation that would seem like an unnecessary deflection of responsibility by pet owners and the better answer is to improve both.