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

[Alexmahone]

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.

As an atheist, I don't see that much difference between humanely raising a pig and raising another human being for consumption. Pigs and humans are both very intelligent and sentient.

I think non-vegetarianism is immoral for everyone, of course. When did I say atheists don't have to justify it? I claimed it was immoral in my OP. Which means I have no justification for it.