The Christian Argument

In one of my podcasts they named several questions a vegan may be posed with. The one that probably intimidated me the most was "Well God put animals here for us to eat." Being a born again Christian and knowing I would face this question from someone at some point made me nervous. There is of course a long detailed answer with lots of bible verses you could reference... but the best and most simple (virtually can't be argued with) response is- "You are absolutely right, but God also loves all his creations and I don't think he takes joy in seeing them suffer and be treated with cruelty." Now that is either a lead in to share more information with them or enough to end the conversation. Beautiful!