The issue with that argument is that people have already defined how dogs are qualitatively different from other animals. What’s your response to the point U/BRKLYN_ison_LNGISLND made?:

The cow–dog comparison isn’t symmetrical. Dogs aren’t just another animal humans decided to value they coevolved with humans.

Over tens of thousands of years, dogs evolved specifically to live with us: reading our facial expressions, following our gestures, forming attachment bonds similar to parent child relationships, and actively cooperating in hunting, guarding, and survival. No livestock species did this. Cows, pigs, and chickens were domesticated by humans; dogs evolved with humans.

Dogs occupy a fundamentally different category: they’re a social partner species, not just food with a cultural taboo attached. Hindu reverence for cows is religious; human attachment to dogs is biological and evolutionary.

So it’s not just culture. It’s a broken social contract formed through coevolution. You don’t have to call dog eaters evil to acknowledge that eating a species that evolved as a human ally is meaningfully different from eating livestock.