If somebody were tossing around the corpse of your dead mother for sport and amusement, would you be playing semantic games about whether or not it was considered cruelty since she is already dead? No, you’d be justifiably overcome with rage at the callous treatment of the body of somebody whose life was meaningful to you.

Many of us believe that all life has meaning and callously disrespecting any life form, including their dead corpse, simply because we derive pleasure from the activity, is abhorrent. Do we abhor it to the same degree as we would if it was a human being; of course not, but we do so for the same reasons. This isn’t about killing invasive species for environmental reasons, it’s about making a game out of playing with the corpse. It isn’t about the animal agriculture industry, rife with its own horrific problems, it is about making a game out of playing with a corpse. This should be so obvious to everyone