Animal suffering

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

… When we talk about animal rights, our first concern is for animal cruelty, not animal suffering. We're thinking about the types of animal suffering specifically inflicted by humans. But that's an incredibly tiny fraction of all the suffering that happens. We have spent no time discussing that; we're not really interested in it.

We're not interested in it because we have the simple explanation: it's natural, and we have the value that natural=correct in some sense. We value the chaos, even though we try very hard to minimize the chaos for ourselves. ...

[BOLD MINE]

Animal cruelty is a mixed bag of concerns which includes that it might be a psychological gateway to human cruelty.

That distinguishes it from not only from suffering; but, cruelty among other animals.