Why do people treat animals like slaves?

A Daily Mail article on philosophy taught to children listed some of the questions put to the children for discussion.

Why do people treat animals like slaves?
Why are there so many answers to God’s questions?

Some of those questions are a bit loaded for young children:

"Why do people treat animals like slaves?"

For starters, how about:

• What are slaves?
• Do people treat animals like slaves?

Or are is this a sneak way to program the meaning of slaves to be "treat people like animals" to prevent children from ever learning that taxation is also slavery?

Truly the language defines the thoughts…

"Why are there so many answers to God’s questions?"

How about starting with:

• What are God’s questions?
• Who is God?