animal crushing

In fourth grade, I was traumatized after watching a female classmate throw her goldfish that she had just won at the fair on the ground and crush it to death with her foot.

I had no idea this was a "thing" until I read this article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/15/animal-crush-video-ban-house-passed_n_783938.html

Thankfully, the House has passed a ban on creating/posting videos of people crushing animals on film. (However, when this was proposed in 1999, it was not passed). If you decide to look further into this issue, please search with caution. Some images are extremely disturbing.

How can we treat humans as "humans" if we cannot even treat animals as "animals"? And, what does this even mean?

Furthermore, the legislation makes exceptions for films depicting hunting, trapping and fishing. Should it?