I cannot explicitly anwser you for all the civilization, but I found something quite peculiar in my research for my master thesis.

In Montreal in 1866, the SPCA (Society for protection against cruelty on animals in Canada) requested to the city council that a public slaughterhouse should be built in Montreal to prevent the selling of meat that was cruelly killed. What's interesting is that the cruelty was not considered "bad" for the animals per se, but for the quality of the meat and for health reasons. A pig that was un-ethically slaughtered was considered bad and unhealthy, so the protection against cruelty to animals was more to protect humans from diseases than to protect animals from poor treatment.

Source: Montreal Municipal Archives, Fond VM041, "Petition made by the SPCA to the City Council", 1866

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I would suggest narrowing it down to one culture.