• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    By not giving them any rights even though complex expression through language implies a high level of intelligence and sapience. The dog and cat that you can talk to are still considered your property that you can just take to the vet and put down. Animal shelters can now just tell the animals their kill dates so they don’t get too hopeful. Slaughterhouses will be filled with screams you understand instead of just screams. Cosmetic companies and labs can now ask their test subjects for the level of pain while smearing makeup in their eyes. Sea World, zoos, circuses, etc would make peak profits now that they can address their slaves as if they were human slaves.

    I mean, all humans can communicate with each other and we still don’t give rights to some of them. Anyone who thinks we’ll be nice to animals just because they can talk is either a child or otherwise doesn’t know how humans operate.

  • mathemachristian [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    use them as insults.
    “wow you eat like a pig”
    🐷??? “and thats a problem why?”

    also tell them how we treat them and see them as lesser beings compared to us.

  • Dutczar@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Considering that negotiating with livestock would be a hassle, probably just pretend we can’t understand them

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        12 hours ago

        If ee could talk to them we would give them money to buy their food in exchange for more obedience and convenience.

        We could probably get some of them to participate in basic farm labour and keep some of them in check.