The thing is though, animals die anyway. And it's not like they die peacefully in their sleep, either. They mostly either get injured or old and starve to death, or get eaten by predators.
That's a false equivalence though; if you look into many vegetarians' justifications for their diet it often isn't the killing or eating of animals that they find objectionable as much as the intentional process of breeding and raising animals for food. I know many "vegetarians" (for want of a better word) who will willingly eat hunted or fished food, but avoid industrial meat.
