I love the way this post is heading........
"Meat eaters would probably say because pigs and cows are especially bred for eating (or milk)."
Yes, and a pretty shameful thing intensive breeding is too.
However, if any vegetarian tells me it is wrong to eat meat, "meat is murder", etc , I have to ask why?
Just because you can't hear vegetables cry, how do you know they aren't in "pain"?
That lion on the African plain, sits there eyeing up the gazelle, thinking " I really should change my eating habits, what am I doing to those poor animals?"
If you tell me 'Ah, but they are less intelligent creatures who don't know any better", well you provide the meat-eater's answer.
Maybe animals were not put on the planet to be killed and eaten by humans, but until some higher authority tells me different...........
