I think that such acts of injury done to animals are the same as foeticide. People consider the calling of agriculture as sinless. That profession, however, is again fraught with cruelty.
न मन्ये भ्रूणहत्यापि विशिष्टा तेन कर्मणा। कृषि साध्विति मन्यन्ते सा च वृत्तिः सुदारुणा॥