[Willy Gee]

"Animals, by contrast, are food, clothing and entertainment to us. I really don't see any reason to protect their rights."

So in your view, animals have no intrinsic value, and you would have no problem if I raised kittens or puppies for the sole purpose of poking their eyes out and slowly torturing them to death?

While I think that is a defensible position (but certainly not one that I hold), very little separates any person who advocates in favor of it from a serial killer.