Quote:It has definitely been shown though that most mammals do have some sense of self awareness.
OK so then as you now believe that most mammals do have self awareness, and you have previously stated that through self awareness comes a human like ability to feel pain and suffer, what moral basis do you have for causing unnecessary pain and suffering on non human animals?
It seems what you are saying is that it is OK to cause unnecessary pain and suffering on a species other than humans? On what other basis can you possibly be discriminating on?