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If you create intelligent life, it doesn't matter who it is or how it came to exist. Your moral responsibilities to that specific creature are identical. I'm sure you can find edge cases where you have to make a decision between a human and a non-human animal, but even if those edge cases all go to the human, it does not excuse all the other cases where there is no human that has to suffer for you to live up to your responsibilities.
Humans have not created intelligent life, so your whole point is moot. Maybe it'll become more relevant in the future, but at this current point in history, the only intelligent life that we "created", has been our own children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_husbandry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_breeding
We totally do. You think cows or chihuahuas exists in the wild?
I have been assured there are cows in the wild who live 20 years on average. it's not true but people(vegans) definitely think that
My best friend is vegan and he have a master in biology.
I'm not saying all vegans think it