I would be all for more severe laws on abuse and living conditions for animals without it getting into the specifics of "intelligence" or "rights". Something a

I would be all for more severe laws on abuse and living conditions for animals without it getting into the specifics of "intelligence" or "rights". Something akin to the golden rule. Let's be honest, these laws won't apply to the average person. It'll apply to where it really matters: Poach an elephant in Africa and come home? Now you're going to court for murder. Keep a Monkey inside your house? Looks like you're going to court for kidnapping. Keep a dog outside chained to a fence and barely feed it? Looks like you're going to court for abuse (more severe than what we do now). We can make provisions for things. Animals eat animals that's the reality of our world. But make cows sit in their own shit for years and eat food that's non nutritional for them? Now you're going to jail for mass incarceration of living things. It's wildly accepted bees are quite intelligent. Let's treat the company who made insecticides that killed all the bees with genocide. Once that legal president is set, let's do the same for people who continue to use insecticides.