It is not a matter of an animal being killed. The issue is when it's going to be killed. Nature deals in unlimited time. And the whole thing is eminently respectable. The devil is a charicature, God a myth.
Creation has a consciousness.
Fusion is bliss. I might as well be Jimmy Cagney in White Heat. The same story, the positive and the negative, the yin and the yang, the antihero. There's no fooling. People are sheep.