Many people resort to animal cruelty.But are they really human?

Nowadays, some violent behaviour is noticed called animal cruelty. More specifically, this attitude is also known as animal neglect or animal abuse. This means that humans make animals suffering for purposes other than self-defence or survival. Moreover, laws concerning animal cruelty are designed to prevent needless cruelty to animals. From my point of view, we are behaving to animals in this way because they are helpless against us and they are also weaker than us, so we can do everything we want to them. However, this misbehaviour must be averted as animals have rights too and by acting in this way we violate their rights.Is it an irreversible situation or it is too late to solve this problem?