He can't help it, he was born that way.

[Marginal]

Pretty close, really, considering that death doesn't do the animal any favors either. I'm just not satisfied with arbitrariness as a standard for law making and punishment.

There's a difference between eating an animal or torturing it.

The fully human version has far more disease related health risks, actually. Zoonotic diseases of any stripe are fairly rare and usually difficult to catch.

They're not usually things humans especially want to catch though. Cow pox etc.