> except why focus on animals? It's a gamble. My assumption is that extrapolating from my personal experience of experiencing the world around me, to other hum

> except why focus on animals? It's a gamble. My assumption is that extrapolating from my personal experience of experiencing the world around me, to other humans is often wrong, but the main gist stays the same. I would feel awful, if someone were to cut off my limbs one by one, so I don't do that to others. Extrapolating from me a human being to a orangutan doesn't seem so far fetched. I think they would also feel awful being cut into pieces. Looking at cows, they have such varied and often human like behavior and expressions, that I think chances are my experience of the world, while still drastically different is still similar enough that the treatment in a farm - any farm - is not something I want to subject them to. Continuing this thought I could go all the way to bacteria or even maybe further. But to me that seems impractical and I think extrapolating from my emotions to the emotions of a bacteria has so little predictive power as to be effectively zero. So as I said, I draw the line at insects, where I think they are different enough that applying my perspective isn't useful anymore. I could be wrong, and the cow really doesn't mind being torn apart limb by limb, or the other way as well and trees do mind. Maybe society is right and it doesn't matter, but what if not?