Originally Posted by skier

Slow down there. I never said animals don't feel pain, and a lot more besides. I've just come to terms that it is natural to eat them. We're at the top of the food chain. Any (meat eating) animal, given the chance, would eat humans if they made it to the top. If they don't, it would be because we taste bad, not because they would have a moral directive not to eat us.

Things die. Sometimes quickly and humanely, and sometimes slowly and painfully. I think that since we have the capacity for empathy, we should end the life of our prey as painlessly as possible. But not to just stop eating them because it reminds us of that dog we had when we were growing up. You know the one- it "ran away" when it was old, blind, and started shitting on the carpet.