Wow this is a fascinating perspective thank you so much for sharing it!!Let me tell you why it is hard to find rational reasons why society is so negative to zoophilia.....because there aren't any they can admit to. As an example, I am raising a pet lamb in hopes that we will someday be intimate. She is a meat (hair) sheep and is now 9 months old. If she had not lost her mother at birth, she would have been slaughtered almost 6 months ago. The same goes for some of my other animals.
The best they can do is to claim animals cannot consent. I have always wanted to put these morons in a stall with a mare in raging heat! It is bullshit because they cannot tell you their real reasons.
Don't worry about things getting worse for "livestock" animals...it can't get worse, especially with modern CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations}. Cows, sheep, pigs and goats can all make wonderful pets. And this has to be avoided by zoning and a host of other obstacles. Found an orphan wild animal? In most stated you cannot own it or even care for it!
Why all these restrictions? Because if people got to know these animals, they would be less likely to eat their flesh, or support hunting them, and that would be bad for businesses of many types.
Forget religious reasons, forget "welfare" arguments, and forget wild stories about all the venereal diseases you can catch from animals. It is about the money...always about the fucking money!
I had been thinking all day about like... why? Hypothetically speaking who stands to gain from criminalizing consensual intimacy with animals?
Well if you're having consensual intimacy with an animal, then it implies respect of agency and boundaries and wellbeing of the animal at a very high level. It'd be hard to not generalize that to all living creatures and animals. Who doesn't give a shit about the wellbeing of living creatures and animals? Well. There are a lot of industries that profit from non-consensual violence and rape of many types of animals. I don't think I need to name them.
Thank you a ton Old Zoo. I appreciate the wisdom <3