That’s completely fair, I was thinking more of the day in day out torture when I wrote that. My bad.

That’s kind of an absurd statement, isn’t it?

If you murder me by shooting me in the back of the head while I’m not looking, that’s not torture.

Obviously I still don’t want you to kill me, but… It’s still not torture, it’s a different thing, and we have different words for that… it’s murder, or killing, or slaughter.

Please keep in mind I’m not making a moral or ethical judgement, but a definitional one. Torture is a different thing.

If, as you say

there’s no way to avoid torturing an animal while taking their life when they don’t want to die.

How are you defining torture?

Did I torture my dearly beloved pets when they had cancer or infections bad enough that I had to have them put down? No! What an odd and cruel thing that would be for me to say!

But they still didn’t want to die, and I didn’t want them to either. That’s not torture.