Excuse me, is it illegal to mistreat small animals to death in China? How serious is it? [Not me]

Under any of the following circumstances, he shall be sentenced to criminal detention or control of not more than six months and may also be fined; If the circumstances are serious or cause serious consequences, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than six months but not more than three years:

(a) intentional cruelty to animals, disrupting social order, if the circumstances are serious or cause serious consequences;

(2) Performing animal cruelty performances or activities, disturbing social order, if the circumstances are serious or causing serious consequences;

(3) Slaughtering animals that hinder epidemic prevention indiscriminately, or culling animals in an inhuman way, if the circumstances are serious or cause serious consequences;

(four) in violation of the provisions of this law, for commercial purposes, the organs of living animals and their derivatives are harvested and sold, and the circumstances are serious or cause serious consequences.

Abuse mentioned in this chapter refers to deliberately causing unnecessary pain and injury to animals by cruel means or methods, or killing animals by cruel means or methods.

Implement controversial editing

First of all, legislation is not operable. What constitutes abuse lacks quantitative standards, and relevant judicial expertise is not mature. For example, it is difficult to define whether a lion is "forced" or hurt because of it.

Second, human attitudes towards animals are more manifested in the moral level, relying more on moral constraints and adopting legal means to enforce them. Overcorrection may be counterproductive.

Third, China's current judicial and social resources are very limited. Before the social problems are well solved, animal legislation seems a little ahead of schedule.

Fourth, legislation will objectively raise the threshold for raising and protecting animals, which is likely to bring harm to animals rather than protection.

Five, the national traditions of ethnic minorities have not been properly explained by law, and some traditional forms of entertainment may disappear, such as cockfighting and bullfighting. Another example is the Tibetan Festival, which is the most solemn ancestor worship ceremony of Miao people and has been a national tradition since the Song Dynasty. Whether it will disappear.