This is the extreme of course, what about the abuse of animals now generally accepted, as in the horse race industry for example? There was a time when the severe training, whipping, breeding and sometimes breaking, driving of creatures (frequently to short life spans) for mere money (gambling) and entertainment, as an industry, was controversial or even condemned:

Note this historic evangelist centered on the treatment of creatures even more than the gambling involved as a sign of public corruption:

...our newspapers are full of horse-races all through the kingdom: these things are sinful; indeed they are exceeding sinful. What good can come from a horse-race; from[b]...

This is the extreme of course, what about the abuse of animals now generally accepted, as in the horse race industry for example? There was a time when the severe training, whipping, breeding and sometimes breaking, driving of creatures (frequently to short life spans) for mere money (gambling) and entertainment, as an industry, was controversial or even condemned:

Note this historic evangelist centered on the treatment of creatures even more than the gambling involved as a sign of public corruption:

...our newspapers are full of horse-races all through the kingdom: these things are sinful; indeed they are exceeding sinful. What good can come from a horse-race; from abusing God Almighty's creatures?

-- George Whitefield, evangelist 1700s Great Awakening