>>508796715
>I bet I could get you to propose marriage to a lion before I let it eat you.
No, I wouldn't. A lion is a hideous beast. I'm talking about two specific animals that were selectively bred to make friends with humans.

>>508796772
>Muh factory farms
You keep bringing this up, but did I ever say cattle were bred to be your friend? No, they were bred to be comtemptible and disgusting. Are you going to bring up jainism again?

Again, EMPATHY IS NOT AN INTELLECTUAL EXPERIENCE
Empathy is not about reasoning out nonsensical "oughts" from the traits of animals
It is an involuntary instinct triggered by sight and sound

Cattle do not trigger empathy
Cats do
Dogs do

There is no real, natural reason to care about the treatment of a cow because people who mistreat cows do not mistreat humans. No, they actually help us out quite a bit.
People who mistreat cats and dogs on the other hand have a tendency to beat women, rape children, and kill people later in life. That's because those two animals are special. Biological litmus tests for whether or not you are a fully formed human being.