I communicate with animals a lot, for that matter animals communicate with each other a lot, just not verbally.

I think cows are affectionate, that doesn’t stop me from eating beef. For that matter, my wife and I were driving into work and saw a huge buck in the side of the road that somebody has just hit with a car, she came back with some friends and found somebody else had cut off the antlers, they hauled the deer back to a friend’s workshop and cut it up, see here

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111259362923381643

what is immoral about that?