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I know I know, alignment questions are awful, but this is a bit head scratching for me and I wanted to be sure.
So I'm playing a Ratfolk named Remmy who has profession (Chef). As you can imagine, he's always having fun serving up new foods and things to the party.
Now, thanks to the minotaur in the "Confirmation" I have a bit of a head scratcher situation. I felt that Remmy would have no problem making minotaur burgers for the team but stopped when I remembered that technically minotaur's are sentient, even if they are not often played that way. My group that day didn't care, nor did the GM, but I realized this could have been a problem if my GM wanted to declare it as an evil act and make me atone.
But as, well, a human sized rat, would Remmy even care about cooking anybody up? With as many "Could be intelligent? Maybe?" creatures as there are in pathfinder, how would this play out? Especially if Remmy has a "Only eat what you kill" policy.
While I'm perfectly willing to "Play it safe" and just cook obviously not-sentient creatures, I was curious if there is any established precedent for eating of other creatures so that I can try to avoid a GM going "Your eating them?! Evil, get atonement!" everytime I cook lunch (Especially since, again, some creatures I might not realize are intelligent).
For PFS, there's rarely any real need to cook anything. GM doesn't even always keep track of meals. If you reach a point in PFS where you *need* to cook something, I'd ask GM then if the only things to cook are sentient. I doubt it will come up much,
"Only Eat what you kill," sounds like a neutral policy. Maybe Lawful Neutral (or lawful evil). A good creature would just bring trail rations and a neutral/chaotic evil character would have no need for such self imposed rules. Furthermore, as a code, this one is poorly written, as your character will be unable to eat in towns where they are unable to kill things - thus opening the door for an evil action, where you start killing to eat, depsite existing food sources that don't require killing (because you only eat what you kill).
That said, a neutral character is allowed to be sometimes evil, provided it isn't something they do all the time. So you could certainly run a character that was Neutral Good all the time, except with regards to your obsession with being a chef, averaging you to a True Neutral character (you'd write True Neutral on the character sheet). That should be fine for PFS, provided you don't get excessive with your roleplaying of evil moments and that your character truly is neutral good in all other areas.