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Ok, now let's equalize the trait that justifies the difference in treatment between cows and these beings: passing a turing test.
Say these human-similes are mentally handicapped and have the intellect equivalent of a cow. Would you now verdit as guilty someone who artificially inseminated one of them without consent?
I think it really depends on what these "human-similes" actually are. Are they just humans with maybe a genetic defect or people affected some environmental poison that causes neurological damage? In that case, they're still clearly human in my opinion.
Or are they basically dumb monkeys that just look similar to humans (which of course means, they never were human to begin with, so this no longer fit's into the premise of the previous comment)?
I don't think that "intelligence" is that important of a factor when it comes to deciding which animals you can eat. It's really about if they are human or not. Like, personally I wouldn't eat the closely related monkeys, both, because I think they are kind of endangered and it feels a bit weird that they are so closely relate to us. But if there is a way to reasonably/legally eat monkey somewhere and people do it, I won't condemn them too hard for it.
Would there be a difference if they were an alien species or a species related to us but not Homo sapiens, when either woud still feel and have a will to live?
Haha, I actually typed out a version of my comment with alien shapeshifters as a solution. And then it really depends on what their intentions are. Still, if you managed to fool humans into being humans, they're obviously a species that is beyond just being livestock.