Animals can feel pain, they are sentient, you can't just vote science out of law

Non human animals show obvious traits of emotion, look at elephants mourning, dogs cowering from an abusive owner, koko the gorilla who showed real signs of depression, and obvious signs of love. On a more ridiculous level with this, they very much do feel pain, if you accidentally step on a cats tail, they react to the pain. If this notion of animals can't feel pain makes it into law, then there's no such thing as animal abuse, microwaving a rabbit alive causes no pain to it, idiotic.