Quote Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned View Post
This seems very confused. You can say that eating animals is good if it increases survival. Suffering doesn't feed a hungry belly though, suffering is just suffering. So if you want to eat animals, that still doesn't excuse an excess of suffering. I cannot think of one situation in which suffering is good.
Both suffering and dying is good in terms of Karma. Karma is "payed off" as such. That is how it is good for the animals. And it isn't exactly a terrible thing if, without human's eating meat/animal products, animals would probably cease to exist a lot faster. In such a way the lower "animal" life is seen to be giving it's life to higher forms. Not by choice, by Karma.