The name makes a difference? My cousin raised a pig for slaughter (won a 4H competition along the way) and he named it “Barbecue.”
I raised rabbits slaughtered 50 to 100 a year. Whack them in the head with a good stick dead right there.
I have hunted and shot hundred more of them.
Rabbits are food.
I tried my best to get a girlfriend to name her new pet rabbit “Stuart” and just call him “Stu” for short.