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The first cases for child abuse in the USA were prosecuted using animal welfare laws. I think the same thing is true in the UK.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/health/15abus.html

It already is in the eyes of some extremist vegans.

(see the "never touch anything animal related for whatever reason" crowd but who then go on and drink gallons of cashew milk from farms of abused workers)

I get the impression that’s more of a lack of awareness of the higher-order consequences than direct value judgements.

I see that in a lot of other cases.

Do you mean in general, or do you mean like a return to owning slaves, anti-miscegenation laws?

In the latter, I’d say there’s a roughly constant probability density function over 50-year bucketed time periods.

In the former, why do you imagine humans would switch to becoming worth less than animals?