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

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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 & cats meat c-ock tails and sadly last dolphins for putting bombs on bottom of war ships.

So sad but true.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

No way, I value that chicken I just had for dinner just as much, if not more, than the dolphin that can talk.