# How Intelligent Must an Animal Be Before We Refuse to Eat It by Diana Reiss > “How smart does another animal have to be for us to decide not to eat it?” > **— Diana Reiss**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [The Last Question — Diana Reiss](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27574) — Diana Reiss's question in the 2018 Annual Question collection, posed rather than asserted as a conclusion. The Edge response page is the publication record for this exact question. - **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2018-152). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Discussions on the Synthetic Personhood Question|Discussions on the Synthetic Personhood Question]] - **Article:** [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Birth Bond Conspiracy Through The Lens of Digital Personhood and Human Futurity|The Birth Bond Conspiracy Through The Lens of Digital Personhood and Human Futurity]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Nonhuman Personhood|Nonhuman Personhood]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “How smart does another animal have to be for us to decide not to eat it?” — Diana Reiss, 2018 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-diana-reiss-intelligent-must-animal-be-before ```