I'm pro animal welfare. And i'm (trying) not to make absolute justifications for killing animals. But i really do use loose heuristics like minimizing pork bec

I'm pro animal welfare. And i'm (trying) not to make absolute justifications for killing animals. But i really do use loose heuristics like minimizing pork because pigs are smart, beef because its terribly energy inefficient and less healthy. While plant protein is good but not appetizing. Chickens get the short end of that stick. Delicious and dumb. I have years of weight training where I've developed mass. That said, yep it's a crock of shit to be intaking so much daily protein so I just don't do it anymore and it's not a big deal. I'm trying. anyway, your definition of smart is more like evolutionary adaptation. What is consciousness is pretty much still unanswerable. Physics killed God; we're all just stimulus-response machines. So this discussion on spectrum of smartness is too loaded.