Treatment of Animals: Is it ethical to treat animals as if they were humans?

Why should animals be treated as if they were humans? No way, come on! Get serious, animals can't be treated the same as people because they are not human beings. They don't deserve any kind of charity given by human beings. I clearly can't stand people that treat, love, or have animals. I can't even see people treating animals as if they were persons. Animals are not humans!!! They can't be treated the same way as us, humans. Otherwise, it would be unlawful to use them as food. However, this doesn't give us humans to be cruel to them, for cruel habits might carry over into our treatment of human beings. Following my point of view, as philosopher, it is not ethical at all to treat animals as if they were humans. You may never compare human beings with animals, they are just different. Human beings do not behave as animals, well, they must not do. And animals do not behave the same way as human beings do! These are some of the reasons why people should not treat animals just like people. There are some people that do not care what is ethical and what is not, but they must know that treating animals in a very good way is not ethical. I hope these kind of people think once again what must be ethical because it's very important to know about treating others. I hope I made my point clear enough so that you all may think over you actions towards animals.