Definitely, my comment was made within the practical reality of what "eating meat" involves for the vast majority of people living in Western societies. If animals would just be painlessly and "stresslessly" euthanised, I would have almost zero issues with the concept. (And yes, I'm setting higher standards for humans than for predators re: painlessly/stresslessly, because we do have both the means and a sense of right and wrong, unlike lions.)

I don't see life itself as valuable - a life filled with suffering imho is not necessarily better than nonexistence, though of course this is up to each entity to decide about themselves. (And for this reason I'm also pro-euthanasia / assisted dying.)