Would you sacrifice your favourite family pet to save lives?

Question

Would you sacrifice your favourite family pet to save lives?
Imagine, if you will, that by the strangest twist of highly unlikely circumstances, you find yourself in the following situation

Answer

I would hope that I would sacrifice the cow since this is ethically the best thing to do but I know that as a human sometimes I err. It is not just a question of whether to regard animals as of equal value as humans because also to be considered is the number of lives. So, it comes down to your personal feelings for your pet vs compassion for saving many lives and here we should concern ourselves with the consequences of our action and thus sacrifice the cow