Can you read a cat, does a cat read you?

You should not justify animals rights not to be slaughtered by their connection to humans.

Pigs are deeply empathic, horses read humans very well, and whales have complex family systems. The division "cute animals" and "edible ones" is just a cultural construct to avoid the moral atrocity.

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Wild dogs don't, and some people don't have any interest in an empath9c connection with dogs. After that, most animals are deeply interested in their own survival.

I find it strange how you’re getting downvoted, since there’s so much evidence to back up your point. There’s literally a whole page on Wikipedia that goes over the human-canine bond and how it’s unique.

Some points it brings up:

studies have demonstrated that both dogs and humans release oxytocin while spending quality time together.

Canines are capable of distinguishing between positive and negative human facial expressions and will react accordingly.

Psychologists believe that the relationship between human and canine is a bidirectional attachment bond, which resembles that of the typical human caretaker/infant relationship, and shows all of the usual hallmarks of a typical bond.

Canines are capable of assessing humans' emotional states, as well as discriminating humans by levels of familiarity.

Studies have demonstrated that shelter dogs benefit from interacting with complete strangers…These results demonstrate the canines' innate desire to form an attachment with a human

You've never had a friend chicken. God damn are chickens cute, friendly animals if you keep one as a pet. Almost makes me feel bad eating them, all animals are empathetic if you spend some time with them.

Then why are horses also controversial to eat?

Let's be real, this isn't a thing where someone sat down and decided morally speaking what our diet should be. It's a cultural standard, and it's the same as Hindus being mad that in the West we specifically eat beef.

No, you anthromorphize and project on them, but you don't read them. They are an animal and we have no way of knowing what they think. What we have is a cultivated relationship through years of selective breeding, same as could be done with plenty of animals given the reason and time.

I'm glad you love your pet, but you don't know if they love you. You assume based on human projection, forgetting they are not human.

it's a safety concern. Cannibalism spreads diseases easier.

Which one? They wrote two sentences.

Unironically it still makes perfect sense.

OP didn't say "your dog" or "a pet dog", they said "dogs".

Dogs and pigs are both omnivores

Dogs can live fine on a vegetarian diet, and pigs will happily eat meat or predate. They're both highly social omnivores. Most likely, they get the same kind of food when farmed, too.

The comparison gets more difficult to prove with cows, and a lot more difficult for chickens. But, a pig is almost the same animal ecologically, and people have pet pigs that live in their house just like a dog.