How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?

[Aroura]

Raising them poorly/inhumanely is immoral, yes. But the notion of raising animals to eat them in and of itself is not immoral when done humanely.

I don't see why it makes a difference to you, whether someone is religiois or not in this case. If you think raising/eating animals is immoral, it should be immoral for everyone. I don't see why you think religious people need to justify an action and atheist people don't have to justify that same action.

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It's our fault because Adam and Eve disobeyed God. God designed a pain free world and humans Fucked it up, free will blah blah.

That's what they'll say, you know.

The Matrix has less plot holes.

No it's not.

I should have said, that's what the literalists will say.  You are not a literalist.
Although you do go with the Free will thing a lot.

And P.S. if it is immoral, then yes, we all have to justify it.  The question is why God created animals that need to suffer so other animals may live.  Seems like a massive design flaw. That's the gist of the question directed at the religious here.