because there’s little real distinction between a pile of garbage, a cow, a boy, the ocean, and god in the pokemon universe. They all have roughly the same intelligence, might have psychic powers other other magical abilities, and apparently eat each other. Pigs can’t learn to talk and it’s weird to eat parrots and ravens. chimps and monkeys are pretty smart and act like us and it’s frowned upon usually to eat them. It’s considered odd to keep cows or pigs as pets for the most part. but what makes one pokemon dinner and the other your best friend? This gets weirder when you think about if some pokemon could consent to sex. Meowth can talk and is just as smart as a human, I’m not saying it wouldn’t be weird but he could consent. Psychic types are also smart and can read minds, apparently they can still be eaten. don’t get me wrong, i can see the IRL distinctions being arbitrary too, but at least I can point them out and they kinda make sense.