How is this even a question ? There ' s the strictly correct answer and wrong answers . Everything written earlier than 1900 is sexist by today ' s standards . <| sep |> Fine then pigs can be sentient but I ' m clearly not using the right word , ok then they could well be sentient however they do not have the higher level thinking that humans do which is what I ' ve been talking about admittedly not using the right semantics I ' m talking about the higher level thinking that makes humans Obviously unique to other animals . The higher level reasoning that makes us worship gods or even question the moral dilemma of eating a pig . Animals don ' t think like us so to compare them to us is stupid we may all be flesh and bones but humans clearly have a higher level of intelligence than pigs do , and therefor should not be compared to them .