Survey: (People age 40 & up ONLY) Should we determine the importance of an animal based on their intelligence?

For instance, think about the intelligence we perceive in animals. Apparently, monkeys and dolphins demonstrate to have a very sophisticated capacity of memory and intelligence in experiments. We show much more consideration for an animal such as a monkey, than to animals we eat such as chickens. Do you think we should value an animal who shows greater intelligence as more important than to an animal who doesn't?

Survey: (People age 40 %26amp; up ONLY) Should we determine the importance of an animal based on their intelligence?
By your theory man (humans) top the pile. In some ways that's how the problems of mother earth have occurred.





I think priority should be determined by NEED. A starving puppy has a getter need than a man with a ketchup stain of his shirt.
Reply:No way, I value that chicken I just had for dinner just as much, if not more, than the dolphin that can talk.
Reply:I never thought about it before this posting and now you just wrecked my dinner, and possibly every other meal.


Well I needed to lose 30 lbs any way.


To be honest I doubt if people will see it this way when set on their favourite meals like, KFC chicken, Burger King hamburgers,


Philippians roasted monkeys, dogs %26amp; cats meat c-ock tails and sadly last dolphins for putting bombs on bottom of war ships.





So sad but true.
Reply:Why not? There isn't some outside 'truth' we're trying to guess at here. Humans *decide* how 'important' an animal is to us, on any particular basis that seems sensible. Intelligence is as good a criterion as any, although usefulness has been more consistently practical.