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Caring about humans and caring about animals are not mutually exclusive activities. We should avoid exploiting both humans and nonhumans, as far as possible and practicable.

We still breed and kill the chickens, essentially exploiting them for our palate pleasure. We give ourselves the right to do that, but there's no logical argument as to why we have that right. It's certainly not because they're less intelligent, because if possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit nonhumans for the same purpose?