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Most people don't consider animals to have intelligence (outside of some apes) which is why they're readily used as food.
They're used as food because that's how people have been socialized. Nobody would willingly eat a dog, but they would eat a pig. Pigs are more intelligent than dogs.
If you're old enough you likely learned in school that animals aren't intelligent or capable of consciousness or self-awareness. None of those things are true.