It's either the start of the end of meat consumption or the start of a morals framework built around how "person-like" another thinking organism is. To be hone

It's either the start of the end of meat consumption or the start of a morals framework built around how "person-like" another thinking organism is. To be honest, that's a valid road, though fraught with the peril of declaring certain classifications of human non-person. There's evidence suggesting, though, that morals are a lot more about survival of our instinctual identification of "species" than they are about the inviolable rights of other sentient organisms (i.e. "Sure that cow has thoughts, but it's not a PERSON, so eat up").