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A tiger has every right to kill an antelope as a human has to kill a cow. The real ethical problem for me lies not in the killing of animals, but rather the conditions they live in prior to execution, and the method of execution. There is a way to ethically consume meat, and it is non industrial and requires each person to do the kill so as to not be alienated from the significance of killing an animal to feed oneself.
And a male lion after defeating and taking over the pride has every right to kill the children of the former leader, because they're animals and act on instinct and can't make moral decisions. Humans can.
You can make other arguments about eating meat but appeals to nature like this don't work in a modern enlightened era where we have more decisions and understand the consequences of them.
Morality isn't some special thing humans have. Morality is what makes us succesful as a species, put through a filter of language and culture.