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

[Catholic_Lady]

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.

You specifically asked theists how we justify eating meat. It's the title of the thread as well as the content of your OP. I'm not sure why you are singling us out.

Also, Im a little confused. You think eating cows or chickens is no different, morally, from eating human beings... yet you claim to not be a vegetarian? I find this a little disturbing. I definitely see a moral difference between the chicken breast I had for dinner last night and cannibalism. If I didn't, I can't imagine living with myself after having eaten it.

Perhaps you should ask yourself how you justify eating meat if you're the one who sees it as no different from canibalism, rather than randomely demanding justification of it from theists.