Animals die for your food and not eating animals doesn't change that. In fact, if you take care where you sourced
your animal sourced food, it is likely you can achieve a significantly lower body count on a 100% carnivore diet than you could even on most variants of a vegan diet.
Been ovo entire vegetarian in the past, but the more I look deeply into different aspects like health, cruelty, climate, etc, the more I find out that we'll sourced nose to tail meat is hard to beat on all fronts, most notably from an non-naive ethical perspective. Poorly sourced meat arguably can be the worst ethical choice, and thus it can be hard to swallow that just sourcing can make so much difference, that the smug feeling we had as vegetarians was so misguided, but once you start looking into plant food deadcounts and cruelty vs holistic pasture raised beef farming , it becomes quite hard to defend not actually becoming a full 100% carnivore.
There of cause is the financial problem because non industrial produced meat is rather steeply priced, and eating nothing but ruminant meat will likely soon get boring, but ethically, eating more (not less) meat, given it has the best possible sourcing, turns out to actually be the most ethical choice unless you apply the cuteness filter to your personal ethical framework.
I think animals are slaughtered/killed for you food because they don't die of old age then we eat them. I am not advocating though a vegetarian lifestyle for everyone as I am not for the moment one myself, but I surely think about this suffering very often when I choose to eat meat.
The question is though: Do you also think about it when eating lettuce or bread? Animals die for those things too, for many foods at a much higher rate than responsibly sourced meat. Just ask yourself, for example, how many rodent parents get poisoned for your plant-based foods, how many of their babies starve to death as a result? How many animals suffer and die as a result of red tide that in term is a result of plant-based food production practices? The more I look into it, the more clear it becomes that food sourcing is many times more important than any other consideration when it comes to animal suffering and death.