17th century scholars dissecting live dogs as believed it no different to opening up a machine - somewhat still pervading perception of non-human animals akin to robots, without consciousness
even if that were true (which both science and philosophy generally holds now that almost all kinds of creatures do have at least sapience and likely sentience - all mammals, all birds and at least some others) - we didn’t manufacture and program it, do we have the right to tinker with it - similar to the question of which level of medicine is reasonable, which level of animal ecosystem intervention is reasonable, fair, etc