VanIsle, there is nothing that lives on this planet that does not do so without some other life form dying. From the tiniest microbial form to the blue whale, everything has to eat something else to survive. In the aboriginal cosmology, all life is sacred, from the smallest to the largest, but as humans, we need to kill to survive and to feed our families. Everything was created by the Creator so it is sacred. This view allows a person to kill with respect for the creature that gives its life to feed us. That includes all vegetable life too, even for medicinal purposes. By treating life as sacred, the people were in a constant state of gratitude for what was available to them.
Do you see much of that going on in our culture? Do you think that animals raised in feed lots are being treated with respect or are treated humanely? Our culture says that only humans are sacred. I find that lacking in so many ways but particularly in the spiritual way.