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Ok. Apparently the natural system that you believe in is a disneyesque, communism-of-the-kingdoms-styled world, where all species have an equal right to exist and all share in a universal balance with each other. Unfortunately, that system has never and will never exist on earth. Balance itself is exactly the opposite of what the natural world is based on.

The fact is, when one species gains an evolutionary advantage over another, that species thrives because of its advantage, and its population expands as the others who compete with it shrink. The system then moves back towards equilibrium through occurrences like starvation, because when a species expands too quickly its food supply usually does not, and also through higher predators, whose populations expand with those of their prey. This tendency for the system to suddenly change, and then to rebalance itself is the hallmark of a competetive, dynamic system. In such systems the competitors who have the greatest advantage and talents will thrive. Others, with less advantages and in competition with the superior competitors, are either eliminated or reduced until they develop new advantages.

The right to life is a right that exists inside human society, not in the natural order outside of that realm. Any belief in equality of the species, i.e. "all animals are created equal" is a direct contradiction of the natural order. Make no mistake; the right to life is a right of mankind and not a universal animal principle.

Look, I know you can feel their pain and all, but there is neither a scientific nor a religious principle you can cite in saying that an animal has the same right to live as you or I.