If you rear some goats(for example) for food and the goats end up loving you lots and you love the goat too, can you kill and eat the goats when it's time to eat them? How do you handle such situation, sell the goats, keep them as pet or just let them live?
Asking this question to see if what I learnt about animals-human relationship is true and can be proven.
I have a friend who had some goats cleaning up weeds on a property he owned. His family became friendly with the goats and treated them as pets. That led to the goats acting more like pets than workers and they would end up hanging around near the residence waiting for attention instead of doing their jobs. As a response, my friend slaughtered and ate the goats, then bought more and asked his family to leave them alone. It worked and there was no more goat eating… Not quite the same, but in this story it was the compassion for goats that led to their demise.