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A shorter version of my comment: I very much doubt that there is a convincing rebuttal to Bentham's and Singer's view that the crucial question we should ask when deciding whether to kill something and eat it is "Can it suffer?"
"Can it suffer" is relevant when the decision is about its suffering. "How much is its potential future life valued" (by humans, and by itself if it has a concept of the future) is more relevant to killing in particular. Arguably you could weigh the suffering involved in an immanent death more than the suffering in a much later death.