Yeah, that sentence you quoted is just obviously untrue. The obvious counterexample to me is grizzly bears in Yellowstone. There’s a reason every trash can in Yellowstone is specially engineered to be bear-resistant. If bears start to associate humans with dumpster food, they get too comfortable around humans and once a bear no longer has the proper fear of humans, they get shot, because the park rangers at Yellowstone can’t have bears hanging out too close to humans and posing massive danger to human life.

So, the information a bear doesn’t have about dumpster food can absolutely affect them, even to the point of causing their death!

I’m a little annoyed that a so-called “philosopher” writing about animals and consent doesn’t understand even this basic example.