To answer, maybe I can use a metaphor. You have a starving man and he is desperately hungry. And on the other side of glass is a rotten apple. You can change that rotten apple and make it the biggest cornucopia of food you've ever seen, but it's still behind glass and that hungry man can't get it.
Why that analogy? If you change only the sentencing, that's wonderful, and I agree with you, but you can't get convictions. So if you want to get a conviction, it's on the other side of that glass. You can have the strictest, hardest, toughest sentences in the world, but if you can never get a conviction, then it simply doesn't matter.
So if you want to get effective animal cruelty legislation, what you do is say that this doesn't cut it. You turn it back—