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How is a cow sentient?
As someone who grew up raising cows, there is evidence of sentience.
They have a social group and a hierarchy within it.
They have friends and enemies in the herd.
They morn their lost friends/children.
They have visible emotions, like sadness, anger, and happiness.
Their children obviously play, like all mammal children do.
They can be trained pretty easily.
If they are around people who don't beat them, they commonly like to be scratched and treated like a cat or dog.
In short, they're very similar to cats and dogs.
What they don't have is a language and they obviously have more limited cognitive capabilities, so people say they're not sentient.
However, sentience is more a line that we draw than a line that exists in nature. This is why these sorts of conversations quickly become conversations about "not as sentient as us" or "have less self-awareness than us."
Is it really evil to eat sentient creatures?I think the pathfinder society has enough PR problems without being the CANNIBAL pyromaniac murder hobo society.
One or two cannibals doesn't make you a cannibal society.
Now, if we want to talk about how many people they've murdered and their kleptomaniac problems, that's probably slightly more frequent.
Edit: Its actually really easy to make the society look bad.
