Why Can Only Humans Be Murdered? What About Non-Human Animals?

‘It’s well known that the language we use to refer to nonhuman animals can be used to hide or sanitize the often egregious ways in which we use, harm and kill them. Words such as euthanize, dispatch, harvest, and cull are frequently used to refer to instances in which people with different motivations and intentions kill healthy animals. It’s about time these polite words are changed to the harsher word, murder, because that’s what it really is. However, time again, we are told that only humans can be murdered, because that’s the way legal systems view killing other-than-human animals.’
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