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I'll make the argument that part of the value of "consciousness" and "humanity" is uniqueness.

Here is an absurd example: If I could carbon copy 100,000 of you.... and later I decided to "take out" one of the copies, would there be a whole lot of societal blowback? Especially if I could make another one.

I think slave owners did exactly that.

They cloned their slaves and killed some of them?

Justification by the horrible status quo? Do you believe this yourself?

Some of us would also like to see animals not slaughtered for human consumption.

So what do you actually do politically to stop it?

There are two kinds of solutions to political problems: those that don't work, and those that are extremely illegal.

I'm not sure what your point is. We shouldn't bother to talk about AI autonomy, rights, etc, because we aren't doing a very good job of animal autonomy, rights, etc?