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I agree with you...but do you really think America or most of the West would be much better if not for modern animal rights activists?
Modern industrial society has such a wild disconnect from its food, and I don't think most people would care if not for the likes of PETA et al always bringing to the front of their attention.
Myself and my kids are ovo-/lacto- vegetarian. My wife is full blown vegan. We raise a small flock of chickens for eggs and my oldest (2nd grade) loves our hens like members of the family.
You know how some of the kids bully him? By saying they'll come to our house and eat our chickens. I think even a second-grader would know not to say that about a dog...but a chicken? Not even a thought. Even his therapist wasn't disturbed by that until I told her that the chickens are treated more like pets than livestock.
And they should be treated better. They are beautiful, diverse creatures with their own social rules and personalities. You haven't lived till you've gotten stoned and hung out with a flock of hens for a few hours.
I do agree that activism is required here and it maybe China is really stuck at progressing here as activism is basically illegal. The one case of animals activism that I know (posted in another comment) is zoo employees rising up against awful zoo conditions and animal torture and anti shark fin soup lead by Yao Ming and some other pop stars.
Animal activism just doesn't really exist in China and it really might be the only way to progress this medium.
I'm honestly quite disappointed in Buddhism here. Chinese follow Mahayana branch of Buddhism (same as Japan, Vietnam etc.) Which aims to "help all beings to achieve buddhism" and yet animal rights are non existant and they perform all these rituals of releasing a fish or smt but never do any real action. Just shows how deeply rooted this issue is.