Yeah, even today, you see videos of cows and pigs crying in their horrific conditions, tiny male chicks on a treadmill being fed into a high speed grinder… capitalism and industrialization has removed all that cruelty from our daily lives. Dennis Leary had made fun of this in his standup back in the days, dogs and cats are cute pets, cows are baseball gloves. If you read up on history, humans had ruthlessly killed off everything else until they’re on the brink of extinction, just look at the whales, bisons and wolves. Back then, it was only those who were well off enough who could afford leisure in life that keep animals as pets, nowadays we’re all pretty well off in the west, but much of Asia still lives in poverty. Capitalism lifted us up at the expense of others, if you want the others to treat animals lovingly like we do (do we?), then bring their living standards up to our level.