No. Though animals can feel pain and some of them even have personalities they are so far removed from human beings in terms of intelligence and awareness that you cannot possible compare the human experience with that of an animal.
Even if I disagree with a lot of the ways we treat animals, human beings are simply on a completely other level.
does not mean we are allowed to treat them like dogshit?
and the fact that humans are fully aware of what they are doing makes me even more sad.
(generally speaking - not just about animals)
we are the only creatures that can feel sadness, empathy they say...looking
at the news all over the world will make you doubt.
i cant wait for a more intelligent creature to wipe the floor with us.