> You're inferring the feelings of an animal to make your judgement. No one actually knows the living preferences of a chicken or a cow. Can you infer the feel

> You're inferring the feelings of an animal to make your judgement. No one actually knows the living preferences of a chicken or a cow. Can you infer the feelings of other humans? If you're willing to accept human communication like speech to answer "no, I don't need to", but are unwilling to accept communication like adult cows being willing to go through physical pain in order to stay with their calves when the calves are being taken away, I think you have a speciesist arbitrary-line problem going on here.