Quote Originally Posted by Byzantine Prince
Have you ever been taught about a thing called the food chain, and that they would eat us if we didn't have a superior brain?
They eat us regardless of who is smarter.

Just to be a successful predator it is an advantage to be smarter.

Part of the very thing that has made us successful is our intelligence which was honed in the heat of the hunt. To deny us meat is to deny us.

On the other hand I do not see any point (logically or emotionally) in inhumanely treating animals be they prey or pet.