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질문 내용 :
Taking a life is momentous, and people have been working to justify the slaughter of animals for thousands of years. Religion, especially ritual, has played a crucial part in helping us reckon the moral costs. Native Americans and other hunter-gatherers would give thanks to their prey for giving up its life so the eater might live. Many cultures have offered sacrificial animals to the gods, perhaps as a way to convince themselves that it was the gods’ desires that demanded the slaughter, not their own.

색칠한 its는 잡아먹히는 동물을 나타낸 것 같은데 왜 its라고 했을까요 앞에는 their prey라고 나왔는데...