Maybe it's because of the culture I grew up in, but I've always known quite consciously that each animal I eat was a living being (this also comes from actually eating raw meat off a dead caribou and skinning then cooking a beaver, all very hands-on). The difference is that I recognize we are all part of a cycle. Some day, I'll die, go back into the earth, and be fed on as well. Everything is something else's food, that's how the world works. Just be thankful that you've got access to food and be grateful for the animals that died to feed you. Avoid overindulging, but that doesn't mean don't enjoy your food. I'd rather eat free-range or wild, simply because it's more humane and you're less likely to encounter various hormones and the like, but I don't think killing to eat is wrong.

it's an animal being bred with the only purpose to die

Isn't that true of every living being? We all live to die. From death comes life comes death and so-on. As humans we are meant to eat meat, that's not a right, but a fact. Now, with the access people have today to various supplements and other things we can eat in place of meat we can survive quite healthily without it, but that wasn't true very long ago, and doesn't change that we are omnivorous. I do not support the mistreatment or abuse of animals. My culture tells us that animals have souls like any human. But, the cycle is what it is, and we are a part of that.