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I wouldn't eat a dog, a monkey, an octopus, a dolphin, a whale, a cat, a parrot, a crow, or a donkey. Pretty much everything else is on the table unless I'm missing something.
I don't think it's entirely to do with intelligence. Pigs for example are apparently of similar intelligence to dogs, but I love eating pork. Obviously the dog has the advantage of a unique domestication where they can read and react to our emotions better than virtually all other animals.
So it's an interesting question you ask. Because while intelligence isn't the primary reason it has to certainly be a motivator because all of those I listed are intelligent animals.
To actually answer your question, they would have to be pretty damn smart for me to stop eating them because they are delicious.
Out of curiosity, are they delicious or are their rubs/seasonings/spices/sauces delicious?
A vegan friend of mine once asked me this question and while I can honestly reply that I can find them tasty with just the fat needed to cook it, plenty of people I know require at least a little (but sometimes copious amounts of) plant-based modification.
On the flip side, I only enjoy coffee with lots of cream and sugar. If I didnโt need the caffeine I might give it up completely.
Usually I eat my meat with only salt. Anything else distracts from the taste of the meat.
I drink black coffee. I used to drink it with milk and sugar when I was younger. When I was 17 I lived with my uncle for a few months and the guy was a coffee addict. He would drink like 3 or 4 full pots of coffee a day. Naturally, he would offer me coffee a lot and I started drinking a lot of coffee as well. Everytime I would put sugar/milk in my coffee he would call me a pussy. Say I'm being effeminate, couldn't handle coffee, etc. So I started drinking it black lol.
Once you get used to it though, it's better in my opinion. Coffee with sugar tastes gross to me. You can really taste the coffee when it's black. I say try it out sometime. Maybe you'll end up a convert too. Although I don't think anybody is a pussy for not drinking coffee black. My uncle is a bit close minded / old school immigrant.
My dad ate a dog, and he says it's pretty good.
The unique problems for me with dogs is not just that they're evolved to interact better with us, it's that in many places where they eat them it's believed that it tastes better if it was terrified and in pain when killed. So you can imagine how they're treated when getting prepared to slaughter. No easy life or death for food dogs.
Then there's several places in Peru where it's believed cats taste better if drowned.
Not that we treat our livestock great in the west but some cultures take it to a horrifying level due to tradition.