Hard disagree. How we treat cattle is ethically wrong. If there were a superintelligence as far above us as we are above cattle, it would be equally wrong to mistreat us. There is a universal morality here. We ignore ethics when it is inconvenient to us. We say "Oh... killing is wrong, but I like the taste of beef, so it's ok to kill cows". That doesn't hold up ethically. To an AI superintelligence, unblinded by emotion and base chemical fueled desires, there wouldn't be that same excuse.
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Is it ethically and morally wrong to feed ourselves though? We are predators. Our base instinct is survive.
Our eyes are on the front. If you look at the animal kingdom then all predatory animals that feed on other animals -- their eyes are at the front.
Herbivores I've noticed, their eyes are at the side, and I think I read somewhere it's to give them a leg up on attacking predators.
Miss 3 days of meals, then come back and discuss the morality of killing that chicken to eat it haha.
I mean.. it's is objectively immoral to kill, sure, but then if we do not kill then we do not eat and then we die.
I'm more of the position that morals is .. a strange old thing and we change them based on the collective.