Question: Though it is wrong to kill animals for meat, isn’t it the karma of these animals to be killed?
Answer: Though it is the negative karma of some of animals to be killed for human consumption or otherwise, none of us have to purposely play a part in being conditions for their deaths by demanding or feeding the demand for their meat, which surely creates some negative karma on our part too, even if indirectly. We are not ‘fated’ to have to eat animals that are killed.
It must surely be such too, that all animals’ negative karma to be killed for human consumption will end on the very day all humans stop actively creating negative karma by demanding for their meat. While this day of a total vegetarian humanity might be some time away, we can start joining the kinder side by reducing or giving up consumption of meat and other animal products.