This is a very human-centric view ;) I'm in the "every life is sacred" camp, but...even if you do kill one animal and leave it to rot, it's not a total waste,

This is a very human-centric view ;) I'm in the "every life is sacred" camp, but...even if you do kill one animal and leave it to rot, it's not a total waste, just a "cruel" one. Other things feed off of the carcasses of animals the same as you or I do. We just consider all other organisms beneath us, so if we kill and discard something, we write it off as a total waste. Birds, dogs, rodents and microorganisms disagree.