[Thorrez]

People have been charged/convicted of torturing chickens:

https://whyy.org/articles/upper-darby-pennsylvania-sentenced...

https://www.wave3.com/2023/04/25/man-accused-abusing-chicken...

I believe the difference is if you're causing the animals pain because you enjoy the pain itself vs causing the animals pain to provide food.

[aziaziazi]

Those convictions are extremely rare though. France even made illegal to fact to denounce such (illegal too) acts if this denunciation could harm the farmer.

https://welfarm.fr/adoption-de-lamendement-le-fur-une-attaqu...