Jem makes the bold claim that 'if you can't eat it, it's not real' and Reeah tries not to spoil Westworld Season 2. Both sisters get very confused about sentience in their journey to figure out what counts as animal cruelty, and how magic effect the ethics of its users.

UK Protection of Animals Act 1911: https://www.animallaw.info/statute/uk-cruelty-protection-animals-act-1911

Animal cruelty in transfiguration resources:

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64214/do-animals-transfigured-to-objects-retain-the-ability-to-feel-anything

https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/83q7wc/the_ethics_of_transfiguring_living_animals/

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63289/what-are-transfigured-animals-essentially-made-of

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8574/how-alive-are-animals-created-by-spells

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Muggles%27_Guide_to_Harry_Potter/Magic/Transfiguration

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