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No really. Go to /r/natureismetal and witness it for yourself.

Here is a goat eating baby chickens...http://imgur.com/kHJhMjW

Not sure I understand what you are trying to say. Herbivores, by definition, do eat living organisms (plants).

Plants still count as life.

In many (most?) cases herbivores aren't taking the life of the plant.

Think of a squirrel, perhaps, and how it feeds on plants.

(Still don't agree with the GP)

Good point, but I think squirrels are a bad example. They're not only taking lives, they're killing the babies!

On the contrary, I imagine a lot of the nuts are planted by squirrels! In either case, many plants have an implicit bargain with animals: eat my fruit, but you must carry my seeds out beyond where I can reach and deposit them there.

Which happens when they pass through the gut, essentially.